Method and system for providing low density parity check (LDPC) encoding

ABSTRACT

An approach is provided for a method of encoding structure Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes. Memory storing information representing a structured parity check Matrix of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes is accessed during the encoding process. The information is organized in tabular form, wherein each row represents occurrences of one Values within a first column of a group of columns of the parity check matrix. The rows correspond to groups of columns of the parity check matrix, wherein subsequent columns within each of the groups are derived according to a predetermined operation. An LDPC coded signal is output based on the stored information representing the parity check matrix.

RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is related to, and claims the benefit of the earlierfiling date under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) of, U.S. Provisional PatentApplication (Ser. No. 60/393,457) filed Jul. 3, 2002, entitled “CodeDesign and Implementation Improvements for Low Density Parity CheckCodes,” U.S. Provisional Patent Application (Ser. No. 60/398,760) filedJul. 26, 2002, entitled “Code Design and Implementation Improvements forLow Density Parity Check Codes,” U.S. Provisional Patent Application(Ser. No. 60/403,812) filed Aug. 15, 2002, entitled “Power and BandwidthEfficient Modulation and Coding Scheme for Direct Broadcast Satelliteand Broadcast Satellite Communications,” U.S. Provisional PatentApplication (Ser. No. 60/421,505), filed Oct. 25, 2002, entitled “Methodand System for Generating Low Density Parity Check Codes,” U.S.Provisional Patent Application (Ser. No. 60/421,999), filed Oct. 29,2002, entitled “Satellite Communication System Utilizing Low DensityParity Check Codes,” U.S. Provisional Patent Application (Ser. No.60/423,710), filed Nov. 4, 2002, entitled “Code Design andImplementation Improvements for Low Density Parity Check Codes,” U.S.Provisional Patent Application (Ser. No. 60/440,199) filed Jan. 15,2003, entitled “Novel Solution to Routing Problem in Low Density ParityCheck Decoders,” U.S. Provisional Patent Application (Ser. No.60/447,641) filed Feb. 14, 2003, entitled “Low Density Parity Check CodeEncoder Design,” U.S. Provisional Patent Application (Ser. No.60/456,220) filed Mar. 20, 2003, entitled “Description LDPC and BCHEncoders,” U.S. Provisional Patent Application filed May 9, 2003,entitled “Description LDPC and BCH Encoders,” U.S. Provisional PatentApplication filed Jun. 24, 2003, entitled “Description LDPC and BCHEncoders,” and U.S. Provisional Patent Application filed Jun. 24, 2003,entitled “Description LDPC and BCH Encoders”; the entireties of whichare incorporated herein by reference.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to communication systems, and moreparticularly to coded systems.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Communication systems employ coding to ensure reliable communicationacross noisy communication channels. These communication channelsexhibit a fixed capacity that can be expressed in terms of bits persymbol at certain signal to noise ratio (SNR), defining a theoreticalupper limit (known as the Shannon limit). As a result, coding design hasaimed to achieve rates approaching this Shannon limit. One such class ofcodes that approach the Shannon limit is Low Density Parity Check (LDPC)codes.

Traditionally, LDPC codes have not been widely deployed because of anumber of drawbacks. One drawback is that the LDPC encoding technique ishighly complex. Encoding an LDPC code using its generator matrix wouldrequire storing a very large, non-sparse matrix. Additionally, LDPCcodes require large blocks to be effective; consequently, even thoughparity check matrices of LDPC codes are sparse, storing these matricesis problematic.

From an implementation perspective, a number of challenges areconfronted. For example, storage is an important reason why LDPC codeshave not become widespread in practice. Also, a key challenge in LDPCcode implementation has been how to achieve the connection networkbetween several processing engines (nodes) in the decoder. Further, thecomputational load in the decoding process, specifically the check nodeoperations, poses a problem.

Therefore, there is a need for an LDPC communication system that employssimple encoding and decoding processes. There is also a need for usingLDPC codes efficiently to support high data rates, without introducinggreater complexity. There is also a need to improve performance of LDPCencoders and decoders. There is also a need to minimize storagerequirements for implementing LDPC coding. There is a further need for ascheme that simplifies the communication between processing nodes in theLDPC decoder.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

These and other needs are addressed by the present invention, wherein anapproach for encoding structured Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codesis provided. Structure of the LDPC codes is provided by restrictingportion part of the parity check matrix to be lower triangular and/orsatisfying other requirements such that the communication between bitnodes and check nodes of the decoder is simplified. Memory storinginformation representing the structured parity check matrix is accessed.The information is organized in tabular form, wherein each rowrepresents occurrences of one values within a first column of a group ofcolumns of the parity check matrix. The rows correspond to groups ofcolumns of the parity check matrix, wherein subsequent columns withineach of the groups are derived according to a predetermined operation(e.g., cyclic shift, addition, etc.). An LDPC coded signal based on thestored information representing the parity check matrix. According toone embodiment of the present invention, a Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem(BCH) encoder is utilized by the transmitter to encode an input signalusing BCH codes, wherein the output LDPC coded signal corresponding tothe input signal represents a code having an outer BCH code and an innerLDPC code. Further, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) encoder is suppliedto encode the input signal according to a CRC code. The approachadvantageously provides expedient encoding as well as decoding of LDPCcodes.

According to one aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, amethod of encoding is disclosed. The method includes accessing memorystoring information representing a structured parity check matrix of LowDensity Parity Check (LDPC) codes. The information is organized intabular form, wherein each row represents occurrences of one valueswithin a first column of a group of columns of the parity check matrix.The rows correspond to groups of columns of the parity check matrix,wherein subsequent columns within each of the groups are derivedaccording to a predetermined operation. The method also includesoutputting an LDPC coded signal based on the stored informationrepresenting the parity check matrix.

According to another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention,an encoder for generating Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codesdisclosed. The encoder includes memory storing information representinga structured parity check matrix of the LDPC codes. The information isorganized in tabular form, wherein each row represents occurrences ofone values within a first column of a group of columns of the paritycheck matrix. The rows correspond to groups of columns of the paritycheck matrix, wherein subsequent columns within each of the groups arederived according to a predetermined operation. The encoder alsoincludes means for retrieving the stored information representing theparity check matrix to output an LDPC coded signal.

According to another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, atransmitter utilizing Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coding disclosed.The transmitter includes memory storing information representing astructured parity check matrix of the LDPC codes, the information beingorganized in tabular form, wherein each row represents occurrences ofone values within a first column of a group of columns of the paritycheck matrix. The rows correspond to groups of columns of the paritycheck matrix, wherein subsequent columns within each of the groups arederived according to a predetermined operation. The transmitter alsoincludes an LDPC encoder configured to access the stored informationfrom the memory to output an LDPC coded signal.

Still other aspects, features, and advantages of the present inventionare readily apparent from the following detailed description, simply byillustrating a number of particular embodiments and implementations,including the best mode contemplated for carrying out the presentinvention. The present invention is also capable of other and differentembodiments, and its several details can be modified in various obviousrespects, all without departing from the spirit and scope of the presentinvention. Accordingly, the drawing and description are to be regardedas illustrative in nature, and not as restrictive.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present invention is illustrated by way of example, and not by wayof limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings and in whichlike reference numerals refer to similar elements and in which:

FIG. 1 is a diagram of a communications system configured to utilize LowDensity Parity Check (LDPC) codes, according to an embodiment of thepresent invention;

FIGS. 2A and 2B are diagrams of exemplary LDPC encoders deployed in thetransmitter of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram of an exemplary receiver in the system of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a diagram of a sparse parity check matrix, in accordance withan embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a diagram of a bipartite graph of an LDPC code of the matrixof FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a diagram of a sub-matrix of a sparse parity check matrix,wherein the sub-matrix contains parity check values restricted to thelower triangular region, according to an embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 7 is a graph showing performance between codes utilizingunrestricted parity check matrix (H matrix) versus restricted H matrixhaving a sub-matrix as in FIG. 6;

FIGS. 8A and 8B are, respectively, a diagram of a non-Gray 8-PSKmodulation scheme, and a Gray 8-PSK modulation, each of which can beused in the system of FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is a graph showing performance between codes utilizing Graylabeling versus non-Gray labeling;

FIG. 10 is a flow chart of the operation of the LDPC decoder usingnon-Gray mapping, according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a flow chart of the operation of the LDPC decoder of FIG. 3using Gray mapping, according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIGS. 12A-12C are diagrams of the interactions between the check nodesand the bit nodes in a decoding process, according to an embodiment ofthe present invention;

FIGS. 13A and 13B are flowcharts of processes for computing outgoingmessages between the check nodes and the bit nodes using, respectively,a forward-backward approach and a parallel approach, according tovarious embodiments of the present invention;

FIGS. 14A-14C are graphs showing simulation results of LDPC codesgenerated in accordance with various embodiments of the presentinvention;

FIGS. 15A and 15B are diagrams of the top edge and bottom edge,respectively, of memory organized to support structured access as torealize randomness in LDPC coding, according to an embodiment of thepresent invention; and

FIG. 16 is a diagram of a computer system that can perform the processesof encoding and decoding of LDPC codes, in accordance with embodimentsof the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

A system, method, and software for efficiently decoding structured LowDensity Parity Check (LDPC) codes are described. In the followingdescription, for the purposes of explanation, numerous specific detailsare set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of thepresent invention. It is apparent, however, to one skilled in the artthat the present invention may be practiced without these specificdetails or with an equivalent arrangement. In other instances,well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form inorder to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a diagram of a communications system configured to utilize LowDensity Parity Check (LDPC) codes, according to an embodiment of thepresent invention. A digital communications system 100 includes atransmitter 101 that generates signal waveforms across a communicationchannel 103 to a receiver 105. In this discrete communications system100, the transmitter 101 has a message source that produces a discreteset of possible messages; each of the possible messages has acorresponding signal waveform. These signal waveforms are attenuated, orotherwise altered, by communications channel 103. To combat the noisechannel 103, LDPC codes are utilized.

The LDPC codes that are generated by the transmitter 101 enable highspeed implementation without incurring any performance loss. Thesestructured LDPC codes output from the transmitter 101 avoid assignmentof a small number of check nodes to the bit nodes already vulnerable tochannel errors by virtue of the modulation scheme (e.g., 8-PSK).

Such LDPC codes have a parallelizable decoding algorithm (unlike turbocodes), which advantageously involves simple operations such asaddition, comparison and table look-up. Moreover, carefully designedLDPC codes do not exhibit any sign of error floor.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the transmitter101 generates, using a relatively simple encoding technique, LDPC codesbased on parity check matrices (which facilitate efficient memory accessduring decoding) to communicate with the receiver 105. The transmitter101 employs LDPC codes that can outperform concatenated turbo+RS(Reed-Solomon) codes, provided the block length is sufficiently large.

FIGS. 2A and 2B are diagrams of exemplary LDPC encoders deployed in thetransmitter of FIG. 1. As seen in FIG. 2A, a transmitter 200 is equippedwith an LDPC encoder 203 that accepts input from an information source201 and outputs coded stream of higher redundancy suitable for errorcorrection processing at the receiver 105. The information source 201generates k signals from a discrete alphabet, X LDPC codes are specifiedwith parity check matrices. On the other hand, encoding LDPC codesrequire, in general, specifying the generator matrices. Even though itis possible to obtain generator matrices from parity check matricesusing Gaussian elimination, the resulting matrix is no longer sparse andstoring a large generator matrix can be complex.

Encoder 203 generates signals from alphabet Y to a modulator 205 using asimple encoding technique that makes use of only the parity check matrixby imposing structure onto the parity check matrix. Specifically, arestriction is placed on the parity check matrix by constraining certainportion of the matrix to be triangular. The construction of such aparity check matrix is described more fully below in FIG. 6. Such arestriction results in negligible performance loss, and therefore,constitutes an attractive trade-off.

Modulator 205 maps the encoded messages from encoder 203 to signalwaveforms that are transmitted to a transmit antenna 207, which emitsthese waveforms over the communication channel 103. Accordingly, theencoded messages are modulated and distributed to a transmit antenna207. The transmissions from the transmit antenna 207 propagate to areceiver, as discussed below.

FIG. 2B shows an LDPC encoder utilized with a Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem(BCH) encoder and a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) encoder, according toone embodiment of the present invention. Under this scenario, the codesgenerated by the LDPC encoder 203, along with the CRC encoder 209 andthe BCH encoder 211, have a concatenated outer BCH code and inner lowdensity parity check (LDPC) code. Furthermore, error detection isachieved using cyclic redundancy check (CRC) codes. The CRC encoder 209,in an exemplary embodiment, encodes using an 8-bit CRC code withgenerator polynomial (x⁵+x⁴+x³+x²+1)(x²+x+1)(x+1).

The LDPC encoder 203 systematically encodes an information block of sizek_(ldpc), i=(i₀, i₁, . . . , i_(k) _(ldpc) ₋₁) onto a codeword of sizen_(ldpc), c=(i₀, i₁, . . . , i_(k) _(ldpc) ₋₁, p₀, p₁, . . . , p_(n)_(ldpc) _(-k) _(ldpc) ₋₁) The transmission of the codeword starts in thegiven order from i₀ and ends with p_(n) _(ldpc) _(-k) _(ldpc) ₋₁. LDPCcode parameters (n_(ldpc), k_(ldpc)) are given in Table 1 below.

TABLE 1 LDPC Code Parameters (n_(ldpc), k_(ldpc)) LDPC Uncoded LDPCCoded Block Length Block Length Code Rate k_(ldpc) n_(ldpc) 1/2 3240064800 2/3 43200 64800 3/4 48600 64800 4/5 51840 64800 5/6 54000 648003/5 38880 64800 8/9 57600 64800  9/10 58320 64800

The task of the LDPC encoder 203 is to determine n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)parity bits (p₀, p₁, . . . , p_(n) _(ldpc) _(-k) _(ldpc) ₋₁) for everyblock of k_(ldpc) information bits, (i₀, i₁, . . . , i_(k) _(ldpc) ₋₁).The procedure is as follows. First, the parity bits are initialized;p₀=p₁=p₂= . . . =p_(n) _(ldpc) _(-k) _(ldpc) ₋₁=0. The first informationbit, i₀, are accumulated at parity bit addresses specified in the firstrow of Tables 3 through 10. For example, for rate ⅔ (Table 3), thefollowing results:p₀=p₀⊕i₀p₁₀₄₉₁=p₁₀₄₉₁⊕i₀p₁₆₀₄₃=p₁₆₀₄₃⊕i₀p₅₀₆=p₅₀₆⊕i₀p₁₂₈₂₆=p₁₂₈₂₆⊕i₀p₈₀₆₅=p₈₀₆₅⊕i₀p₈₂₂₆=p₈₂₂₆⊕i₀p₂₇₆₇=p₂₇₆₇⊕i₀p₂₄₀=p₂₄₀⊕i₀p₁₈₆₇₃=p₁₈₆₇₃⊕i₀p₉₂₇₉=p₉₂₇₉⊕i₀p₁₀₅₇₉=p₁₀₅₇₉⊕i₀p₂₀₉₂₈=p₂₀₉₂₈⊕i₀(All additions are in GF(2)).

Then, for the next 359 information bits, i_(m), m=1, 2, . . . , 359,these bits are accumulated at parity bit addresses {x+m mod 360×q}mod(n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)), where x denotes the address of the parity bitaccumulator corresponding to the first bit i₀, and q is a code ratedependent constant specified in Table 2. Continuing with the example,q=60 for rate ⅔. By way of example, for information bit i₁, thefollowing operations are performed:p₆₀=p₆₀⊕i₁p₁₀₅₅₁=p₁₀₅₅₁⊕i₁p₁₆₁₀₃=p₁₆₁₀₃⊕i₁p₅₆₆=p₅₆₆⊕i₁p₁₂₈₈₆=p₁₈₈₆⊕i₁p₈₁₂₅=p₈₁₂₅⊕i₁p₈₂₈₆=p₈₂₈₆⊕i₁p₂₈₂₇=p₂₈₂₇⊕i₁p₃₀₀=p₃₀₀⊕i₁p₁₈₇₃₃=p₁₈₇₃₃⊕i₁p₉₃₃₉=p₉₃₃₉⊕i₁p₁₀₆₃₉=p₁₀₆₃₉⊕i₁p₂₀₉₈₈=p₂₀₉₈₈⊕i₁

For the 361^(st) information bit i₃₆₀, the addresses of the parity bitaccumulators are given in the second row of the Tables 3 through 10. Ina similar manner the addresses of the parity bit accumulators for thefollowing 359 information bits i_(m), m=361, 362, . . . , 719 areobtained using the formula {x+m mod 360×q} mod(n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)), wherex denotes the address of the parity bit accumulator corresponding to theinformation bit i₃₆₀, i.e., the entries in the second row of the Tables3-10. In a similar manner, for every group of 360 new information bits,a new row from Tables 3 through 10 are used to find the addresses of theparity bit accumulators.

After all of the information bits are exhausted, the final parity bitsare obtained as follows. First, the following operations are performed,starting with i=1p _(i) =p _(i) ⊕p _(i−1) , i=1,2, . . . ,n _(ldpc) −k _(ldpc)−1.Final content of p_(i), i=0,1, . . . ,n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)−1 is equal tothe parity bit p_(i).

TABLE 2 Code Rate q 2/3 60 5/6 30 1/2 90 3/4 45 4/5 36 3/5 72 8/9 20 9/10 18

TABLE 3 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅔) 0 10491 16043 50612826 8065 8226 2767 240 18673 9279 10579 20928 1 17819 8313 6433 62245120 5824 12812 17187 9940 13447 13825 18483 2 17957 6024 8681 1862812794 5915 14576 10970 12064 20437 4455 7151 3 19777 6183 9972 145368182 17749 11341 5556 4379 17434 15477 18532 4 4651 19689 1608 659 1670714335 6143 3058 14618 17894 20684 5306 5 9778 2552 12096 12369 1519816890 4851 3109 1700 18725 1997 15882 6 486 6111 13743 11537 5591 743315227 14145 1483 3887 17431 12430 7 20647 14311 11734 4180 8110 552512141 15761 18661 18441 10569 8192 8 3791 14759 15264 19918 10132 906210010 12786 10675 9682 19246 5454 9 19525 9485 7777 19999 8378 9209 316320232 6690 16518 716 7353 10 4588 6709 20202 10905 915 4317 11073 1357616433 368 3508 21171 11 14072 4033 19959 12608 631 19494 14160 824910223 21504 12395 4322 12 13800 14161 13 2948 9647 14 14693 16027 1520506 11082 16 1143 9020 17 13501 4014 18 1548 2190 19 12216 21556 202095 19897 21 4189 7958 22 15940 10048 23 515 12614 24 8501 8450 2517595 16784 26 5913 8495 27 16394 10423 28 7409 6981 29 6678 15939 3020344 12987 31 2510 14588 32 17918 6655 33 6703 19451 34 496 4217 357290 5766 36 10521 8925 37 20379 11905 38 4090 5838 39 19082 17040 4020233 12352 41 19365 19546 42 6249 19030 43 11037 19193 44 19760 1177245 19644 7428 46 16076 3521 47 11779 21062 48 13062 9682 49 8934 5217 5011087 3319 51 18892 4356 52 7894 3898 53 5963 4360 54 7346 11726 55 51825609 56 2412 17295 57 9845 20494 58 6687 1864 59 20564 5216 0 1822617207 1 9380 8266 2 7073 3065 3 18252 13437 4 9161 15642 5 10714 10153 611585 9078 7 5359 9418 8 9024 9515 9 1206 16354 10 14994 1102 11 937520796 12 15964 6027 13 14789 6452 14 8002 18591 15 14742 14089 16 2533045 17 1274 19286 18 14777 2044 19 13920 9900 20 452 7374 21 18206 992122 6131 5414 23 10077 9726 24 12045 5479 25 4322 7990 26 15616 5550 2715561 10661 28 20718 7387 29 2518 18804 30 8984 2600 31 6516 17909 3211148 98 33 20559 3704 34 7510 1569 35 16000 11692 36 9147 10303 3716650 191 38 15577 18685 39 17167 20917 40 4256 3391 41 20092 17219 429218 5056 43 18429 8472 44 12093 20753 45 16345 12748 46 16023 11095 475048 17595 48 18995 4817 49 16483 3536 50 1439 16148 51 3661 3039 5219010 18121 53 8968 11793 54 13427 18003 55 5303 3083 56 531 16668 574771 6722 58 5695 7960 59 3589 14630

TABLE 4 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅚) 0 4362 416 8909 41563216 3112 2560 2912 6405 8593 4969 6723 1 2479 1786 8978 3011 4339 93136397 2957 7288 5484 6031 10217 2 10175 9009 9889 3091 4985 7267 40928874 5671 2777 2189 8716 3 9052 4795 3924 3370 10058 1128 9996 101659360 4297 434 5138 4 2379 7834 4835 2327 9843 804 329 8353 7167 30701528 7311 5 3435 7871 348 3693 1876 6585 10340 7144 5870 2084 4052 27806 3917 3111 3476 1304 10331 5939 5199 1611 1991 699 8316 9960 7 68833237 1717 10752 7891 9764 4745 3888 10009 4176 4614 1567 8 10587 21951689 2968 5420 2580 2883 6496 111 6023 1024 4449 9 3786 8593 2074 33215057 1450 3840 5444 6572 3094 9892 1512 10 8548 1848 10372 4585 73136536 6379 1766 9462 2456 5606 9975 11 8204 10593 7935 3636 3882 394 59688561 2395 7289 9267 9978 12 7795 74 1633 9542 6867 7352 6417 7568 10623725 2531 9115 13 7151 2482 4260 5003 10105 7419 9203 6691 8798 2092 82633755 14 3600 570 4527 200 9718 6771 1995 8902 5446 768 1103 6520 15 63047621 16 6498 9209 17 7293 6786 18 5950 1708 19 8521 1793 20 6174 7854 219773 1190 22 9517 10268 23 2181 9349 24 1949 5560 25 1556 555 26 86003827 27 5072 1057 28 7928 3542 29 3226 3762 0 7045 2420 1 9645 2641 22774 2452 3 5331 2031 4 9400 7503 5 1850 2338 6 10456 9774 7 1692 9276 810037 4038 9 3964 338 10 2640 5087 11 858 3473 12 5582 5683 13 9523 91614 4107 1559 15 4506 3491 16 8191 4182 17 10192 6157 18 5668 3305 193449 1540 20 4766 2697 21 4069 6675 22 1117 1016 23 5619 3085 24 84838400 25 8255 394 26 6338 5042 27 6174 5119 28 7203 1989 29 1781 5174 01464 3559 1 3376 4214 2 7238 67 3 10595 8831 4 1221 6513 5 5300 4652 61429 9749 7 7878 5131 8 4435 10284 9 6331 5507 10 6662 4941 11 961410238 12 8400 8025 13 9156 5630 14 7067 8878 15 9027 3415 16 1690 386617 2854 8469 18 6206 630 19 363 5453 20 4125 7008 21 1612 6702 22 90699226 23 5767 4060 24 3743 9237 25 7018 5572 26 8892 4536 27 853 6064 288069 5893 29 2051 2885 0 10691 3153 1 3602 4055 2 328 1717 3 2219 9299 41939 7898 5 617 206 6 8544 1374 7 10676 3240 8 6672 9489 9 3170 7457 107868 5731 11 6121 10732 12 4843 9132 13 580 9591 14 6267 9290 15 30092268 16 195 2419 17 8016 1557 18 1516 9195 19 8062 9064 20 2095 8968 21753 7326 22 6291 3833 23 2614 7844 24 2303 646 25 2075 611 26 4687 36227 8684 9940 28 4830 2065 29 7038 1363 0 1769 7837 1 3801 1689 2 100702359 3 3667 9918 4 1914 6920 5 4244 5669 6 10245 7821 7 7648 3944 8 33105488 9 6346 9666 10 7088 6122 11 1291 7827 12 10592 8945 13 3609 7120 149168 9112 15 6203 8052 16 3330 2895 17 4264 10563 18 10556 6496 19 88077645 20 1999 4530 21 9202 6818 22 3403 1734 23 2106 9023 24 6881 3883 253895 2171 26 4062 6424 27 3755 9536 28 4683 2131 29 7347 8027

TABLE 5 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ½) 54 9318 14392 2756126909 10219 2534 8597 55 7263 4635 2530 28130 3033 23830 3651 56 2473123583 26036 17299 5750 792 9169 57 5811 26154 18653 11551 15447 1368516264 58 12610 11347 28768 2792 3174 29371 12997 59 6789 16018 214496165 21202 15850 3186 60 31016 21449 17618 6213 12166 8334 18212 6122836 14213 11327 5896 718 11727 9308 62 2091 24941 29966 23634 901315587 5444 63 2220 3983 16904 28534 21415 27524 25912 64 25687 450122193 14665 14798 16158 5491 65 4520 17094 23397 4264 22370 16941 2152666 10490 6182 32370 9597 30841 25954 2762 67 22120 22865 29870 1514713668 14955 19235 68 6689 18408 18346 9918 25746 5443 20645 69 2998212529 13858 4746 30370 10023 24828 70 1262 28032 29888 13063 24033 219517863 71 6594 29642 31451 14831 9509 9335 31552 72 1358 6454 16633 2035424598 624 5265 73 19529 295 18011 3080 13364 8032 15323 75 9276 296562543 30699 20646 21921 28050 76 15975 25634 5520 31119 13715 21949 1960577 18688 4608 31755 30165 13103 10706 29224 78 21514 23117 12245 2603531656 25631 30699 79 9674 24966 31285 29908 17042 24588 31857 80 2185627777 29919 27000 14897 11409 7122 81 29773 23310 263 4877 28622 2054522092 82 15605 5651 21864 3967 14419 22757 15896 83 30145 1759 1013929223 26086 10556 5098 84 18815 16575 2936 24457 26738 6030 505 85 3032622298 27562 20131 26390 6247 24791 86 928 29246 21246 12400 15311 23230918608 87 20314 6025 26689 16302 2296 3244 19613 88 6237 11943 2285115642 23857 15112 20947 89 26403 25168 19038 18384 8882 12719 7093 014567 24965 1 3908 100 2 10279 240 3 24102 764 4 12383 4173 5 1386115918 6 21327 1046 7 5288 14579 8 28158 8069 9 16583 11098 10 1668128363 11 13980 24725 12 32169 17989 13 10907 2767 14 21557 3818 15 2667612422 16 7676 8754 17 14905 20232 18 15719 24646 19 31942 8589 20 1997827197 21 27060 15071 22 6071 26649 23 10393 11176 24 9597 13370 25 708117677 26 1433 19513 27 26925 9014 28 19202 8900 29 18152 30647 30 208031737 31 11804 25221 32 31683 17783 33 29694 9345 34 12280 26611 35 652626122 36 26165 11241 37 7666 26962 38 16290 8480 39 11774 10120 40 3055130426 41 1335 15424 42 6865 17742 43 31779 12489 44 32120 21001 45 145086996 46 979 25024 47 4554 21896 48 7989 21777 49 4972 20661 50 6612 273051 12742 4418 52 29194 595 53 19267 20113

TABLE 6 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ¾) 0 6385 7901 1461113389 11200 3252 5243 2504 2722 821 7374 1 11359 2698 357 13824 127727244 6752 15310 852 2001 11417 2 7862 7977 6321 13612 12197 14449 1513713860 1708 6399 13444 3 1560 11804 6975 13292 3646 3812 8772 7306 579514327 7866 4 7626 11407 14599 9689 1628 2113 10809 9283 1230 15241 48705 1610 5699 15876 9446 12515 1400 6303 5411 14181 13925 7358 6 4059 88363405 7853 7992 15336 5970 10368 10278 9675 4651 7 4441 3963 9153 210912683 7459 12030 12221 629 15212 406 8 6007 8411 5771 3497 543 14202 8759186 6235 13908 3563 9 3232 6625 4795 546 9781 2071 7312 3399 7250 493212652 10 8820 10088 11090 7069 6585 13134 10158 7183 488 7455 9238 111903 10818 119 215 7558 11046 10615 11545 14784 7961 15619 12 3655 87364917 15874 5129 2134 15944 14768 7150 2692 1469 13 8316 3820 505 89236757 806 7957 4216 15589 13244 2622 14 14463 4852 15733 3041 11193 1286013673 8152 6551 15108 8758 15 3149 11981 16 13416 6906 17 13098 13352 182009 14460 19 7207 4314 20 3312 3945 21 4418 6248 22 2669 13975 23 75719023 24 14172 2967 25 7271 7138 26 6135 13670 27 7490 14559 28 8657 246629 8599 12834 30 3470 3152 31 13917 4365 32 6024 13730 33 10973 14182 342464 13167 35 5281 15049 36 1103 1849 37 2058 1069 38 9654 6095 39 143117667 40 15617 8146 41 4588 11218 42 13660 6243 43 8578 7874 44 117412685 0 1022 1264 1 12604 9965 2 8217 2707 3 3156 11793 4 354 1514 5 697814058 6 7922 16079 7 15087 12138 8 5053 6470 9 12687 14932 10 15458 176311 8121 1721 12 12431 549 13 4129 7091 14 1426 8415 15 9783 7604 16 629511329 17 1409 12061 18 8065 9087 19 2918 8438 20 1293 14115 21 392213851 22 3851 4000 23 5865 1768 24 2655 14957 25 5565 6332 26 4303 1263127 11653 12236 28 16025 7632 29 4655 14128 30 9584 13123 31 13987 959732 15409 12110 33 8754 15490 34 7416 15325 35 2909 15549 36 2995 8257 379406 4791 38 11111 4854 39 2812 8521 40 8476 14717 41 7820 15360 42 11797939 43 2357 8678 44 7703 6216 0 3477 7067 1 3931 13845 2 7675 12899 31754 8187 4 7785 1400 5 9213 5891 6 2494 7703 7 2576 7902 8 4821 15682 910426 11935 10 1810 904 11 11332 9264 12 11312 3570 13 14916 2650 147679 7842 15 6089 13084 16 3938 2751 17 8509 4648 18 12204 8917 19 574912443 20 12613 4431 21 1344 40141 22 8488 13850 23 1730 14896 24 149427126 25 14983 8863 26 6578 8564 27 4947 396 28 297 12805 29 13878 669230 11857 11186 31 14395 11493 32 16145 12251 33 13462 7428 34 1452613119 35 2535 11243 36 6465 12690 37 6872 9334 38 15371 14023 39 810110187 40 11963 4848 41 15125 6119 42 8051 14465 43 11139 5167 44 288314521

TABLE 7 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅘) 0 149 11212 55756360 12559 8108 8505 408 10026 12828 1 5237 490 10677 4998 3869 37343092 3509 7703 10305 2 8742 5553 2820 7085 12116 10485 564 7795 29722157 3 2699 4304 8350 712 2841 3250 4731 10105 517 7516 4 12067 135111992 12191 11267 5161 537 6166 4246 2363 5 6828 7107 2127 3724 574311040 10756 4073 1011 3422 6 11259 1216 9526 1466 10816 940 3744 281511506 11573 7 4549 11507 1118 1274 11751 5207 7854 12803 4047 6484 88430 4115 9440 413 4455 2262 7915 12402 8579 7052 9 3885 9126 5665 45052343 253 4707 3742 4166 1556 10 1704 8936 6775 8639 8179 7954 8234 78508883 8713 11 11716 4344 9087 11264 2274 8832 9147 11930 6054 5455 127323 3970 10329 2170 8262 3854 2087 12899 9497 11700 13 4418 1467 24905841 817 11453 533 11217 11962 5251 14 1541 4525 7976 3457 9536 77253788 2982 6307 5997 15 11484 2739 4023 12107 6516 551 2572 6628 81509852 16 6070 1761 4627 6534 7913 3730 11866 1813 12306 8249 17 124415489 8748 7837 7660 2102 11341 2936 6712 11977 18 10155 4210 19 101010483 20 8900 10250 21 10243 12278 22 7070 4397 23 12271 3887 24 119806836 25 9514 4356 26 7137 10281 27 11881 2526 28 1969 11477 29 304410921 30 2236 8724 31 9104 6340 32 7342 8582 33 11675 10405 34 646712775 35 3186 12198 0 9621 11445 1 7486 5611 2 4319 4879 3 2196 344 47527 6650 5 10693 2440 6 6755 2706 7 5144 5998 8 11043 8033 9 4846 443510 4157 9228 11 12270 6562 12 11954 7592 13 7420 2592 14 8810 9636 15689 5430 16 920 1304 17 1253 11934 18 9559 6016 19 312 7589 20 4439 419721 4002 9555 22 12232 7779 23 1494 8782 24 10749 3969 25 4368 3479 266316 5342 27 2455 3493 28 12157 7405 29 6598 11495 30 11805 4455 31 96252090 32 4731 2321 33 3578 2608 34 8504 1849 35 4027 1151 0 5647 4935 14219 1870 2 10968 8054 3 6970 5447 4 3217 5638 5 8972 669 6 5618 12472 71457 1280 8 8868 3883 9 8866 1224 10 8371 5972 11 266 4405 12 3706 324413 6039 5844 14 7200 3283 15 1502 11282 16 12318 2202 17 4523 965 189587 7011 19 2552 2051 20 12045 10306 21 11070 5104 22 6627 6906 23 98892121 24 829 9701 25 2201 1819 26 6689 12925 27 2139 8757 28 12004 594829 8704 3191 30 8171 10933 31 6297 7116 32 616 7146 33 5142 9761 3410377 8138 35 7616 5811 0 7285 9863 1 7764 10867 2 12343 9019 3 44148331 4 3464 642 5 6960 2039 6 786 3021 7 710 2086 8 7423 5601 9 81204885 10 12385 11990 11 9739 10034 12 424 10162 13 1347 7597 14 1450 11215 7965 8478 16 8945 7397 17 6590 8316 18 6838 9011 19 6174 9410 20 255113 21 6197 5835 22 12902 3844 23 4377 3505 24 5478 8672 25 4453 2132 269724 1380 27 12131 11526 28 12323 9511 29 8231 1752 30 497 9022 31 92883080 32 2481 7515 33 2696 268 34 4023 12341 35 7108 5553

TABLE 8 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅗) 22422 10282 1162619997 11161 2922 3122 99 5625 17064 8270 179 25087 16218 17015 828 2004125656 4186 11629 22599 17305 22515 6463 11049 22853 25706 14388 550019245 8732 2177 13555 11346 17265 3069 16581 22225 12563 19717 2357711555 25496 6853 25403 5218 15925 21766 16529 14487 7643 10715 1744211119 5679 14155 24213 21000 1116 15620 5340 8636 16693 1434 5635 65169482 20189 1066 15013 25361 14243 18506 22236 20912 8952 5421 15691 612621595 500 6904 13059 6802 8433 4694 5524 14216 3685 19721 25420 993723813 9047 25651 16826 21500 24814 6344 17382 7064 13929 4004 1655212818 8720 5286 2206 22517 2429 19065 2921 21611 1873 7507 5661 2300623128 20543 19777 1770 4636 20900 14931 9247 12340 11008 12966 4471 273116445 791 6635 14556 18865 22421 22124 12697 9803 25485 7744 18254 113139004 19982 23963 18912 7206 12500 4382 20067 6177 21007 1195 23547 24837756 11158 14646 20534 3647 17728 11676 11843 12937 4402 8261 22944 930624009 10012 11081 3746 24325 8060 19826 842 8836 2898 5019 7575 745525244 4736 14400 22981 5543 8006 24203 13053 1120 5128 3482 9270 1305915825 7453 23747 3656 24585 16542 17507 22462 14670 15627 15290 419822748 5842 13395 23918 16985 14929 3726 25350 24157 24896 16365 1642313461 16615 8107 24741 3604 25904 8716 9604 20365 3729 17245 18448 986220831 25326 20517 24618 13282 5099 14183 8804 16455 17646 15376 1819425528 1777 6066 21855 14372 12517 4488 17490 1400 8135 23375 20879 84764084 12936 25536 22309 16582 6402 24360 25119 23586 128 4761 10443 225368607 9752 25446 15053 1856 4040 377 21160 13474 5451 17170 5938 1025611972 24210 17833 22047 16108 13075 9648 24546 13150 23867 7309 197982988 16858 4825 23950 15125 20526 3553 11525 23366 2452 17626 1926520172 18060 24593 13255 1552 18839 21132 20119 15214 14705 7096 101745663 18651 19700 12524 14033 4127 2971 17499 16287 22368 21463 794318880 5567 8047 23363 6797 10651 24471 14325 4081 7258 4949 7044 1078797 22910 20474 4318 21374 13231 22985 5056 3821 23718 14178 9978 1903023594 8895 25358 6199 22056 7749 13310 3999 23697 16445 22636 5225 2243724153 9442 7978 12177 2893 20778 3175 8645 11863 24623 10311 25767 170573691 20473 11294 9914 22815 2574 8439 3699 5431 24840 21908 16088 182448208 5755 19059 8541 24924 6454 11234 10492 16406 10831 11436 9649 1626411275 24953 2347 12667 19190 7257 7174 24819 2938 2522 11749 3627 596913862 1538 23176 6353 2855 17720 2472 7428 573 15036 0 18539 18661 110502 3002 2 9368 10761 3 12299 7828 4 15048 13362 5 18444 24640 6 2077519175 7 18970 10971 8 5329 19982 9 11296 18655 10 15046 20659 11 730022140 12 22029 14477 13 11129 742 14 13254 13813 15 19234 13273 16 607921122 17 22782 5828 18 19775 4247 19 1660 19413 20 4403 3649 21 1337125851 22 22770 21784 23 10757 14131 24 16071 21617 25 6393 3725 26 59719968 27 5743 8084 28 6770 9548 29 4285 17542 30 13568 22599 31 17864617 32 23238 11648 33 19627 2030 34 13601 13458 35 13740 17328 36 2501213944 37 22513 6687 38 4934 12587 39 21197 5133 40 22705 6938 41 753424633 42 24400 12797 43 21911 25712 44 12039 1140 45 24306 1021 46 1401220747 47 11265 15219 48 4670 15531 49 9417 14359 50 2415 6504 51 2496424690 52 14443 8816 53 6926 1291 54 6209 20806 55 13915 4079 56 2441013196 57 13505 6117 58 9869 8220 59 1570 6044 60 25780 17387 61 2067124913 62 24558 20591 63 12402 3702 64 8314 1357 65 20071 14616 66 170143688 67 19837 946 68 15195 12136 69 7758 22808 70 3564 2925 71 3434 7769

TABLE 9 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 8/9) 0 6235 2848 3222 15800 3492 5348 2 2757 927 90 3 6961 4516 4739 4 1172 3237 6264 5 19272425 3683 6 3714 6309 2495 7 3070 6342 7154 8 2428 613 3761 9 2906 2645927 10 1716 1950 4273 11 4613 6179 3491 12 4865 3286 6005 13 1343 59233529 14 4589 4035 2132 15 1579 3920 6737 16 1644 1191 5998 17 1482 23814620 18 6791 6014 6596 19 2738 5918 3786 0 5156 6166 1 1504 4356 2 1301904 3 6027 3187 4 6718 759 5 6240 2870 6 2343 1311 7 1039 5465 8 66172513 9 1588 5222 10 6561 535 11 4765 2054 12 5966 6892 13 1969 3869 143571 2420 15 4632 981 16 3215 4163 17 973 3117 18 3802 6198 19 3794 39480 3196 6126 1 573 1909 2 850 4034 3 5622 1601 4 6005 524 5 5251 5783 6172 2032 7 1875 2475 8 497 1291 9 2566 3430 10 1249 740 11 2944 1948 126528 2899 13 2243 3616 14 867 3733 15 1374 4702 16 4698 2285 17 47603917 18 1859 4058 19 6141 3527 0 2148 5066 1 1306 145 2 2319 871 3 34631061 4 5554 6647 5 5837 339 6 5821 4932 7 6356 4756 8 3930 418 9 2113094 10 1007 4928 11 3584 1235 12 6982 2869 13 1612 1013 14 953 4964 154555 4410 16 4925 4842 17 5778 600 18 6509 2417 19 1260 4903 0 3369 30311 3557 3224 2 3028 583 3 3258 440 4 6226 6655 5 4895 1094 6 1481 6847 74433 1932 8 2107 1649 9 2119 2065 10 4003 6388 11 6720 3622 12 3694 452113 1164 7050 14 1965 3613 15 4331 66 16 2970 1796 17 4652 3218 18 17624777 19 5736 1399 0 970 2572 1 2062 6599 2 4597 4870 3 1228 6913 4 41591037 5 2916 2362 6 395 1226 7 6911 4548 8 4618 2241 9 4120 4280 10 5825474 11 2154 5558 12 3793 5471 13 5707 1595 14 1403 325 15 6601 5183 166369 4569 17 4846 896 18 7092 6184 19 6764 7127 0 6358 1951 1 3117 69602 2710 7062 3 1133 3604 4 3694 657 5 1355 110 6 3329 6736 7 2505 3407 82462 4806 9 4216 214 10 5348 5619 11 6627 6243 12 2644 5073 13 4212 508814 3463 3889 15 5306 478 16 4320 6121 17 3961 1125 18 5699 1195 19 6511792 0 3934 2778 1 3238 6587 2 1111 6596 3 1457 6226 4 1446 3885 5 39074043 6 6839 2873 7 1733 5615 8 5202 4269 9 3024 4722 10 5445 6372 11 3701828 12 4695 1600 13 680 2074 14 1801 6690 15 2669 1377 16 2463 1681 175972 5171 18 5728 4284 19 1696 1459

TABLE 10 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 9/10) 0 5611 2563 29001 5220 3143 4813 2 2481 834 81 3 6265 4064 4265 4 1055 2914 5638 5 17342182 3315 6 3342 5678 2246 7 2185 552 3385 8 2615 236 5334 9 1546 17553846 10 4154 5561 3142 11 4382 2957 5400 12 1209 5329 3179 13 1421 35286063 14 1480 1072 5398 15 3843 1777 4369 16 1334 2145 4163 17 2368 5055260 0 6118 5405 1 2994 4370 2 3405 1669 3 4640 5550 4 1354 3921 5 1171713 6 5425 2866 7 6047 683 8 5616 2582 9 2108 1179 10 933 4921 11 59532261 12 1430 4699 13 5905 480 14 4289 1846 15 5374 6208 16 1775 3476 173216 2178 0 4165 884 1 2896 3744 2 874 2801 3 3423 5579 4 3404 3552 52876 5515 6 516 1719 7 765 3631 8 5059 1441 9 5629 598 10 5405 473 114724 5210 12 155 1832 13 1689 2229 14 449 1164 15 2308 3088 16 1122 66917 2268 5758 0 5878 2609 1 782 3359 2 1231 4231 3 4225 2052 4 4286 35175 5531 3184 6 1935 4560 7 1174 131 8 3115 956 9 3129 1088 10 5238 444011 5722 4280 12 3540 375 13 191 2782 14 906 4432 15 3225 1111 16 62962583 17 1457 903 0 855 4475 1 4097 3970 2 4433 4361 3 5198 541 4 11464426 5 3202 2902 6 2724 525 7 1083 4124 8 2326 6003 9 5605 5990 10 43761579 11 4407 984 12 1332 6163 13 5359 3975 14 1907 1854 15 3601 5748 166056 3266 17 3322 4085 0 1768 3244 1 2149 144 2 1589 4291 3 5154 1252 41855 5939 5 4820 2706 6 1475 3360 7 4266 693 8 4156 2018 9 2103 752 103710 3853 11 5123 931 12 6146 3323 13 1939 5002 14 5140 1437 15 1263 29316 5949 4665 17 4548 6380 0 3171 4690 1 5204 2114 2 6384 5565 3 57221757 4 2805 6264 5 1202 2616 6 1018 3244 7 4018 5289 8 2257 3067 9 24833073 10 1196 5329 11 649 3918 12 3791 4581 13 5028 3803 14 3119 3506 154779 431 16 3888 5510 17 4387 4084 0 5836 1692 1 5126 1078 2 5721 6165 33540 2499 4 2225 6348 5 1044 1484 6 6323 4042 7 1313 5603 8 1303 3496 93516 3639 10 5161 2293 11 4682 3845 12 3045 643 13 2818 2616 14 3267 64915 6236 593 16 646 2948 17 4213 1442 0 5779 1596 1 2403 1237 2 2217 15143 5609 716 4 5155 3858 5 1517 1312 6 2554 3158 7 5280 2643 8 4990 1353 95648 1170 10 1152 4366 11 3561 5368 12 3581 1411 13 5647 4661 14 15425401 15 5078 2687 16 316 1755 17 3392 1991

As regards the BCH encoder 211, the BCH code parameters are enumeratedin Table 11.

TABLE 11 BCH Uncoded Block BCH Error LDPC Code Length BCH Coded BlockCorrection Rate k_(bch) Length n_(bch) (bits) ½ 32208 32400 12 ⅔ 4304043200 10 ¾ 48408 48600 12 ⅘ 51648 51840 12 ⅚ 53840 54000 10 ⅗ 3868838880 12 8/9 57472 57600 8 9/10 58192 58320 8

It is noted that in the above table, n_(bch)=k_(ldpc).

The generator polynomial of the t error correcting BCH encoder 211 isobtained by multiplying the first t polynomials in the following list ofTable 12:

TABLE 12 g₁(x) 1 + x² + x³ + x⁵ + x¹⁶ g₂(x) 1 + x + x⁴ + x⁵ + x⁶ + x⁸ +x¹⁶ g₃(x) 1 + x² + x³ + x⁴ + x⁵ + x⁷ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹¹ + x¹⁶ g₄(x)1 + x² + x⁴ + x⁶ + x⁹ + x¹¹ + x¹² + x¹⁴ + x¹⁶ g₅(x) 1 + x + x² + x³ +x⁵ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹¹ + x¹² + x¹⁶ g₆(x) 1 + x² + x⁴ + x⁵ + x⁷ + x⁸ +x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹² + x¹³ + x¹⁴ + x¹⁵ + x¹⁶ g₇(x) 1 + x² + x⁵ + x⁶ + x⁸ +x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹¹ + x¹³ + x¹⁵ + x¹⁶ g₈(x) 1 + x + x² + x⁵ + x⁶ + x⁸ + x⁹ +x¹² + x¹³ + x¹⁴ + x¹⁶ g₉(x) 1 + x⁵ + x⁷ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹¹ + x¹⁶ g₁₀(x)1 + x + x² + x⁵ + x⁷ + x⁸ + x¹⁰ + x¹² + x¹³ + x¹⁴ + x¹⁶ g₁₁(x) 1 + x² +x³ + x⁵ + x⁹ + x¹¹ + x¹² + x¹³ + x¹⁶ g₁₂(x) 1 + x + x⁵ + x⁶ + x⁷ + x⁹ +x¹¹ + x¹² + x¹⁶

BCH encoding of information bits m=(m_(k) _(bch) ₋₁, m_(k) _(bch) ₋₂, .. . , m₁, m₀) onto a codeword c=(m_(k) _(bch) ₋₁, m_(k) _(bch) ₋₂, . . ., m₁, m₀, d_(n) _(bch) _(-k) _(bch) ₋₁, d_(n) _(bch) _(-k) _(bch) ₋₂, .. . , d₁, d₀) is achieved as follows. The message polynomial m(x)=m_(k)_(bch) ₋₁x^(k) ^(bch) ⁻¹+m_(k) _(bch) ₋₂x^(k) ^(bch) ⁻²+ . . . +m₁x+m₀is multiplied by x^(n) ^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch) . Next, x^(n) ^(bch) ^(-k)^(bch) m(x) divided by g(x). With d(x)=d_(n) _(bch) _(-k) _(bch) ₋₁x^(n)^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch) ⁻¹+ . . . +d₁x+d₀ as the remainder, the codewordpolynomial is set as follows: c(x)=x^(n) ^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch) m(x)+d(x).

The above LDPC codes, in an exemplary embodiment, can be used to varietyof digital video applications, such as MPEG (Motion Pictures ExpertGroup) packet transmission.

FIG. 3 is a diagram of an exemplary receiver in the system of FIG. 1. Atthe receiving side, a receiver 300 includes a demodulator 301 thatperforms demodulation of received signals from transmitter 200. Thesesignals are received at a receive antenna 303 for demodulation. Afterdemodulation, the received signals are forwarded to a decoder 305, whichattempts to reconstruct the original source messages by generatingmessages, X′, in conjunction with a bit metric generator 307. Withnon-Gray mapping, the bit metric generator 307 exchanges probabilityinformation with the decoder 305 back and forth (iteratively) during thedecoding process, which is detailed in FIG. 10. Alternatively, if Graymapping is used (according to one embodiment of the present invention),one pass of the bit metric generator is sufficient, in which furtherattempts of bit metric generation after each LDPC decoder iteration arelikely to yield limited performance improvement; this approach is morefully described with respect to FIG. 11. To appreciate the advantagesoffered by the present invention, it is instructive to examine how LDPCcodes are generated, as discussed in FIG. 4.

FIG. 4 is a diagram of a sparse parity check matrix, in accordance withan embodiment of the present invention. LDPC codes are long, linearblock codes with sparse parity check matrix H_((n-k)xn). Typically theblock length, n, ranges from thousands to tens of thousands of bits. Forexample, a parity check matrix for an LDPC code of length n=8 and rate ½is shown in FIG. 4. The same code can be equivalently represented by thebipartite graph, per FIG. 5.

FIG. 5 is a diagram of a bipartite graph of an LDPC code of the matrixof FIG. 4. Parity check equations imply that for each check node, thesum (over GF (Galois Field)(2)) of all adjacent bit nodes is equal tozero. As seen in the figure, bit nodes occupy the left side of the graphand are associated with one or more check nodes, according to apredetermined relationship. For example, corresponding to check node m₁,the following expression exists n₁+n₄+n₅+n₈=0 with respect to the bitnodes.

Returning the receiver 303, the LDPC decoder 305 is considered a messagepassing decoder, whereby the decoder 305 aims to find the values of bitnodes. To accomplish this task, bit nodes and check nodes iterativelycommunicate with each other. The nature of this communication isdescribed below.

From check nodes to bit nodes, each check node provides to an adjacentbit node an estimate (“opinion”) regarding the value of that bit nodebased on the information coming from other adjacent bit nodes. Forinstance, in the above example if the sum of n₄, n₅ and n₈ “looks like”0 to m₁, then m₁ would indicate to n₁ that the value of n₁ is believedto be 0 (since n₁+n₄+n₅+n₈=0); otherwise m₁ indicate to n₁ that thevalue of n₁ is believed to be 1. Additionally, for soft decisiondecoding, a reliability measure is added.

From bit nodes to check nodes, each bit node relays to an adjacent checknode an estimate about its own value based on the feedback coming fromits other adjacent check nodes. In the above example n₁ has only twoadjacent check nodes m₁ and m₃. If the feedback coming from m₃ to n₁indicates that the value of n₁ is probably 0, then n₁ would notify m₁that an estimate of n₁'s own value is 0. For the case in which the bitnode has more than two adjacent check nodes, the bit node performs amajority vote (soft decision) on the feedback coming from its otheradjacent check nodes before reporting that decision to the check node itcommunicates. The above process is repeated until all bit nodes areconsidered to be correct (i.e., all parity check equations aresatisfied) or until a predetermined maximum number of iterations isreached, whereby a decoding failure is declared.

FIG. 6 is a diagram of a sub-matrix of a sparse parity check matrix,wherein the sub-matrix contains parity check values restricted to thelower triangular region, according to an embodiment of the presentinvention. As described previously, the encoder 203 (of FIGS. 2A and 2B)can employ a simple encoding technique by restricting the values of thelower triangular area of the parity check matrix. According to anembodiment of the present invention, the restriction imposed on theparity check matrix is of the form:H _((n-k)xn) =[A _((n-k)xk) B _((n-k)x(n−k))],where B is lower triangular.

Any information block i=(i₀, i₁, . . . , i_(k-1)) is encoded to acodeword c=(i₀, i₁, . . . , i_(k-1), p₀, p₁, . . . p_(n-k-1)) usingHc^(T)=0, and recursively solving for parity bits; for example,a ₀₀ i ₀ +a ₀₁ i ₁ + . . . +a _(0,k-1) i _(k-1) +p ₀=0

Solve p ₀a ₁₀ i ₀ +a ₁₁ i ₁ + . . . +a _(1,k−1) i _(k-1) +b ₁₀ p ₀ +p ₁=0

Solve p ₁

-   -   and similarly for p₂, p₃, . . . , p_(n-k-1).

FIG. 7 is a graph showing performance between codes utilizingunrestricted parity check matrix (H matrix) versus restricted H matrixof FIG. 6. The graph shows the performance comparison between two LDPCcodes: one with a general parity check matrix and the other with aparity check matrix restricted to be lower triangular to simplifyencoding. The modulation scheme, for this simulation, is 8-PSK. Theperformance loss is within 0.1 dB. Therefore, the performance loss isnegligible based on the restriction of the lower triangular H matrices,while the gain in simplicity of the encoding technique is significant.Accordingly, any parity check matrix that is equivalent to a lowertriangular or upper triangular under row and/or column permutation canbe utilized for the same purpose.

FIGS. 8A and 8B are, respectively, a diagram of a non-Gray 8-PSKmodulation scheme, and a Gray 8-PSK modulation, each of which can beused in the system of FIG. 1. The non-Gray 8-PSK scheme of FIG. 8A canbe utilized in the receiver of FIG. 3 to provide a system that requiresvery low Frame Erasure Rate (FER). This requirement can also besatisfied by using a Gray 8-PSK scheme, as shown in FIG. 8B, inconjunction with an outer code, such as Bose, Chaudhuri, and Hocquenghem(BCH), Hamming, or Reed-Solomon (RS) code.

Under this scheme, there is no need to iterate between the LDPC decoder305 (FIG. 3) and the bit metric generator 307, which may employ 8-PSKmodulation. In the absence of an outer code, the LDPC decoder 305 usingGray labeling exhibit an earlier error floor, as shown in FIG. 9 below.

FIG. 9 is a graph showing performance between codes utilizing Graylabeling versus non-Gray labeling of FIGS. 8A and 8B. The error floorstems from the fact that assuming correct feedback from LDPC decoder305, regeneration of 8-PSK bit metrics is more accurate with non-Graylabeling since the two 8-PSK symbols with known two bits are furtherapart with non-Gray labeling. This can be equivalently seen as operatingat higher Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). Therefore, even though errorasymptotes of the same LDPC code using Gray or non-Gray labeling havethe same slope (i.e., parallel to each other), the one with non-Graylabeling passes through lower FER at any SNR.

On the other hand, for systems that do not require very low FER, Graylabeling without any iteration between LDPC decoder 305 and 8-PSK bitmetric generator 307 may be more suitable because re-generating 8-PSKbit metrics before every LDPC decoder iteration causes additionalcomplexity. Moreover, when Gray labeling is used, re-generating 8-PSKbit metrics before every LDPC decoder iteration yields only very slightperformance improvement. As mentioned previously, Gray labeling withoutiteration may be used for systems that require very low FER, provided anouter code is implemented.

The choice between Gray labeling and non-Gray labeling depends also onthe characteristics of the LDPC code. Typically, the higher bit or checknode degrees, the better it is for Gray labeling, because for highernode degrees, the initial feedback from LDPC decoder 305 to 8-PSK (orsimilar higher order modulation) bit metric generator 307 deterioratesmore with non-Gray labeling.

When 8-PSK (or similar higher order) modulation is utilized with abinary decoder, it is recognized that the three (or more) bits of asymbol are not received “equally noisy”. For example with Gray 8-PSKlabeling, the third bit of a symbol is considered more noisy to thedecoder than the other two bits. Therefore, the LDPC code design doesnot assign a small number of edges to those bit nodes represented by“more noisy” third bits of 8-PSK symbol so that those bits are notpenalized twice.

FIG. 10 is a flow chart of the operation of the LDPC decoder usingnon-Gray mapping, according to an embodiment of the present invention.Under this approach, the LDPC decoder and bit metric generator iterateone after the other. In this example, 8-PSK modulation is utilized;however, the same principles apply to other higher modulation schemes aswell. Under this scenario, it is assumed that the demodulator 301outputs a distance vector, d, denoting the distances between receivednoisy symbol points and 8-PSK symbol points to the bit metric generator307, whereby the vector components are as follows:

${d_{i} = {{{- \frac{E_{s}}{N_{0}}}\left\{ {\left( {r_{x} - s_{i,x}} \right)^{2} + \left( {r_{y} - s_{i,y}} \right)^{2}} \right\}\mspace{20mu} i} = 0}},1,{\ldots\mspace{14mu} 7.}$

The 8-PSK bit metric generator 307 communicates with the LDPC decoder305 to exchange a priori probability information and a posterioriprobability information, which respectively are represented as u, and a.That is, the vectors u and a respectively represent a priori and aposteriori probabilities of log likelihood ratios of coded bits.

The 8-PSK bit metric generator 307 generates the a priori likelihoodratios for each group of three bits as follows. First, extrinsicinformation on coded bits is obtained:e _(j) =a _(j) −u _(j) j=0,1,2.Next, 8-PSK symbol probabilities, p_(i) i=0, 1, . . . , 7, aredetermined.*y _(j)=−ƒ(0,e _(j)) j=0,1,2 where ƒ(a,b)=max(a,b)+LUT _(ƒ)(a,b) withLUT _(ƒ)(a,b)=ln(1+e ^(−|a−b|))*x _(j) =y _(j) +e _(j) j=0,1,2*p ₀ =x ₀ +x ₁ +x ₂ p ₄ =y ₀ +x ₁ +x ₂p ₁ =x ₀ +x ₁ +y ₂ p ₅ =y ₀ +x ₁ +y ₂p ₂ =x ₀ +y ₁ +x ₂ p ₆ =y ₀ +y ₁ +x ₂p ₃ =x ₀ +y ₁ +y ₂ p ₇ =y ₀ +y ₁ +y ₂

Next, the bit metric generator 307 determines a priori log likelihoodratios of the coded bits as input to LDPC decoder 305, as follows:u ₀=ƒ(d ₀ +p ₀ ,d ₁ +p ₁ ,d ₂ +p ₂ ,d ₃ +p ₃)−ƒ(d ₄ +p ₄ ,d ₅ +p ₅ ,d ₆+p ₆ ,d ₇ +p ₇)−e ₀u ₁=ƒ(d ₀ +p ₀ ,d ₁ +p ₁ ,d ₄ +p ₄ ,d ₅ +p ₅)−ƒ(d ₂ +p ₂ ,d ₃ +p ₃,d₆ +p₆ ,d ₇ +p ₇)−e ₁u ₂=ƒ(d ₀ +p ₀ ,d ₂ +p ₂ ,d ₄ +p ₄ ,d ₆ +p ₆)−ƒ(d ₂ +p ₂ ,d ₃ +p ₃ ,d ₆+p ₆ ,d ₇ +p ₇)−e ₂

It is noted that the function ƒ(.) with more than two variables can beevaluated recursively; e.g. ƒ(a,b,c)=ƒ(ƒ(a,b),c).

The operation of the LDPC decoder 305 utilizing non-Gray mapping is nowdescribed. In step 1001, the LDPC decoder 305 initializes log likelihoodratios of coded bits, v, before the first iteration according to thefollowing (and as shown in FIG. 12A):v_(n→k) _(i) =u_(n) , n=0,1, . . . ,N−1, i=1,2, . . . ,deg(bit node n)Here, v_(n→k) _(i) denotes the message that goes from bit node n to itsadjacent check node k_(i), u_(n) denotes the demodulator output for thebit n and N is the codeword size.

In step 1003, a check node, k, is updated, whereby the input v yieldsthe output w. As seen in FIG. 12B, the incoming messages to the checknode k from its d_(c) adjacent bit nodes are denoted by v_(n) _(t)_(→k), v_(n) ₂ _(→k), . . . , v_(n) _(dc) _(→k). The goal is to computethe outgoing messages from the check node k back to d_(c) adjacent bitnodes. These messages are denoted byw_(k→n) ₁ ,w_(k→n) ₂ , . . . ,w_(k→n) _(dc) , wherew _(k→n) _(i) =g(v _(n) ₁ _(→k) ,v _(n) ₂ _(→k) , . . . ,v _(n) _(i−1)_(→k) ,v _(n) _(i+1) _(→k) , . . . ,v _(n) _(dc) _(→k)).

The function g( ) is defined as follows:g(a,b)=sign(a)×sign(b)×{min(|a|,|b|)}+LUT _(g)(a,b),where LUT_(g)(a,b)=ln(1+e^(−|a+b|))−ln(1+e^(−|a−b|)). Similar tofunction ƒ, function g with more than two variables can be evaluatedrecursively.

Next, the decoder 305, per step 1205, outputs a posteriori probabilityinformation (FIG. 12C), such that:

$a_{n} = {u_{n} + {\sum\limits_{j}{w_{k_{j}\rightarrow n}.}}}$

Per step 1007, it is determined whether all the parity check equationsare satisfied. If these parity check equations are not satisfied, thenthe decoder 305, as in step 1009, re-derives 8-PSK bit metrics andchannel input u_(n). Next, the bit node is updated, as in step 1011. Asshown in FIG. 14C, the incoming messages to the bit node n from itsd_(v) adjacent check nodes are denoted by w_(k) ₁ _(→n, w) _(k) ₂ _(→n),. . . , w_(k) _(dv) _(→n) The outgoing messages from the bit node n arecomputed back to d_(v) adjacent check nodes; such messages are denotedby v_(n→k) ₁ , v_(n→k) ₂ , . . . , v_(n→k) _(dv) , and computed asfollows:

$v_{n\rightarrow k_{i}} = {u_{n} + {\sum\limits_{j \neq i}w_{k_{j}\rightarrow n}}}$In step 1013, the decoder 305 outputs the hard decision (in the casethat all parity check equations are satisfied):

${\hat{c}}_{n} = \left\{ {{\begin{matrix}{0,} & {a_{n} \geq 0} \\{1,} & {a_{n} < 0}\end{matrix}\mspace{20mu}{Stop}\mspace{14mu}{if}\mspace{14mu} H{\hat{c}}^{T}} = 0} \right.$

The above approach is appropriate when non-Gray labeling is utilized.However, when Gray labeling is implemented, the process of FIG. 11 isexecuted.

FIG. 11 is a flow chart of the operation of the LDPC decoder of FIG. 3using Gray mapping, according to an embodiment of the present invention.When Gray labeling is used, bit metrics are advantageously generatedonly once before the LDPC decoder, as re-generating bit metrics afterevery LDPC decoder iteration may yield nominal performance improvement.As with steps 1001 and 1003 of FIG. 10, initialization of the loglikelihood ratios of coded bits, v, are performed, and the check node isupdated, per steps 1101 and 1103. Next, the bit node n is updated, as instep 1105. Thereafter, the decoder outputs the a posteriori probabilityinformation (step 1107). In step 1109, a determination is made whetherall of the parity check equations are satisfied; if so, the decoderoutputs the hard decision (step 1111). Otherwise, steps 1103-1107 arerepeated.

FIG. 13A is a flowchart of process for computing outgoing messagesbetween the check nodes and the bit nodes using a forward-backwardapproach, according to an embodiment of the present invention. For acheck node with d_(c) adjacent edges, the computation of d_(c)(d_(c)−1)and numerous g(.,.) functions are performed. However, theforward-backward approach reduces the complexity of the computation to3(d_(c)−2), in which d_(c)−1 variables are stored.

Referring to FIG. 12B, the incoming messages to the check node k fromd_(c) adjacent bit nodes are denoted by v_(n) ₁ _(→k), v_(n) ₂ _(→k), .. . , v_(n) _(dc) _(→k). It is desired that the outgoing messages arecomputed from the check node k back to d_(c) adjacent bit nodes; theseoutgoing messages are denoted by w_(k→n) ₁ , w_(k→n) ₂ , . . . , w_(k→n)_(dc) .

Under the forward-backward approach to computing these outgoingmessages, forward variables, f₁, f₂, . . . , f_(dc), are defined asfollows:

$\begin{matrix}{f_{1} = v_{1\rightarrow k}} \\{f_{2} = {g\left( {f_{1},v_{2\rightarrow k}} \right)}} \\{f_{3} = {g\left( {f_{2},v_{3\rightarrow k}} \right)}} \\{\vdots\mspace{34mu}\vdots\mspace{40mu}\vdots} \\{f_{dc} = {g\left( {f_{{dc} - 1},v_{{dc}\rightarrow k}} \right)}}\end{matrix}$In step 1301, these forward variables are computed, and stored, per step1303.

Similarly, backward variables, b₁, b₂, . . . , b_(dc), are defined bythe following:

$\begin{matrix}{b_{dc} = v_{{dc}\rightarrow k}} \\{b_{{dc} - 1} = {g\left( {b_{dc},v_{{{dc} - 1}\rightarrow k}} \right)}} \\{\vdots\mspace{34mu}\vdots\mspace{34mu}\vdots} \\{b_{1} = {g\left( {b_{2},v_{1\rightarrow k}} \right)}}\end{matrix}$In step 1305, these backward variables are then computed. Thereafter,the outgoing messages are computed, as in step 1307, based on the storedforward variables and the computed backward variables. The outgoingmessages are computed as follows:w_(k→1)=b₂w _(k→i) =g(f _(i−1) , b _(i+1)) i=2,3, . . . ,d _(c)−1w _(k→dc) =f _(dc−1)

Under this approach, only the forward variables, f₂, f₃, . . . , f_(dc),are required to be stored. As the backward variables b_(i) are computed,the outgoing messages, w_(k→i), are simultaneously computed, therebynegating the need for storage of the backward variables.

The computation load can be further enhance by a parallel approach, asnext discussed.

FIG. 13B is a flowchart of process for computing outgoing messagesbetween the check nodes and the bit nodes using a parallel approach,according to an embodiment of the present invention. For a check node kwith inputs v_(n) ₁ _(→k), v_(n) ₂ _(→k), . . . , v_(n) _(dc) _(→k) fromd_(c) adjacent bit nodes, the following parameter is computed, as instep 1311:γ_(k) =g(v _(n) ₁ _(→k) ,v _(n) ₂ _(→k) , . . . ,v _(n) _(dc) _(→k)).

It is noted that the g(.,.) function can also be expressed as follows:

${g\left( {a,b} \right)} = {\ln{\frac{1 + {\mathbb{e}}^{a + b}}{{\mathbb{e}}^{a} + {\mathbb{e}}^{b}}.}}$

Exploiting the recursive nature of the g(.,.) function, the followingexpression results:

$\quad\begin{matrix}{\gamma_{k} = {\ln\frac{1 + {\mathbb{e}}^{{g{({v_{n_{1}\rightarrow k},\mspace{11mu}\ldots\mspace{11mu},v_{n_{i - 1}\rightarrow k},v_{n_{i + 1}\rightarrow k},\mspace{11mu}\ldots\mspace{11mu},v_{n_{dc}\rightarrow k}})}} + v_{n_{i}\rightarrow k}}}{{\mathbb{e}}^{g{({v_{n_{1}\rightarrow k},\mspace{11mu}\ldots\mspace{11mu},v_{n_{i - 1}\rightarrow k},v_{n_{i + 1}\rightarrow k},\mspace{11mu}\ldots\mspace{11mu},v_{n_{dc}\rightarrow k}})}} + {\mathbb{e}}^{v_{n_{i}\rightarrow k}}}}} \\{= {\ln\frac{1 + {\mathbb{e}}^{w_{k\rightarrow n_{i}} + v_{n_{i}\rightarrow k}}}{{\mathbb{e}}^{w_{k\rightarrow n_{i}}} + {\mathbb{e}}^{v_{n_{i}\rightarrow k}}}}}\end{matrix}$

Accordingly, w_(k→n) _(i) can be solved in the following manner:

$w_{k\rightarrow n_{i}} = {{\ln\frac{{\mathbb{e}}^{v_{n_{i}\rightarrow k} + \gamma_{k}} - 1}{{\mathbb{e}}^{v_{n_{i}\rightarrow k} - \gamma_{k}} - 1}} - \gamma_{k}}$

The ln(.) term of the above equation can be obtained using a look-uptable LUT_(X) that represents the function ln|e^(x)−1| (step 1313).Unlike the other look-up tables LUT_(f) or LUT_(g), the table LUT_(X)would likely requires as many entries as the number of quantizationlevels. Once γ_(k) is obtained, the calculation of w_(k→n) _(i) for alln_(i) can occur in parallel using the above equation, per step 1315.

The computational latency of γ_(k) is advantageously log₂(d_(c)).

FIGS. 14A-14C are graphs showing simulation results of LDPC codesgenerated in accordance with various embodiments of the presentinvention. In particular, FIGS. 14A-14C show the performance of LDPCcodes with higher order modulation and code rates of ¾ (QPSK, 1.485bits/symbol), ⅔ (8-PSK, 1.980 bits/symbol), and ⅚ (8-PSK, 2.474bits/symbol).

Two general approaches exist to realize the interconnections betweencheck nodes and bit nodes: (1) a fully parallel approach, and (2) apartially parallel approach. In fully parallel architecture, all of thenodes and their interconnections are physically implemented. Theadvantage of this architecture is speed.

The fully parallel architecture, however, may involve greater complexityin realizing all of the nodes and their connections. Therefore withfully parallel architecture, a smaller block size may be required toreduce the complexity. In that case, for the same clock frequency, aproportional reduction in throughput and some degradation in FER versusEs/No performance may result.

The second approach to implementing LDPC codes is to physically realizeonly a subset of the total number of the nodes and use only theselimited number of “physical” nodes to process all of the “functional”nodes of the code. Even though the LDPC decoder operations can be madeextremely simple and can be performed in parallel, the further challengein the design is how the communication is established between “randomly”distributed bit nodes and check nodes. The decoder 305 (of FIG. 3),according to one embodiment of the present invention, addresses thisproblem by accessing memory in a structured way, as to realize aseemingly random code. This approach is explained with respect to FIGS.15A and 15B.

FIGS. 15A and 15B are diagrams of the top edge and bottom edge,respectively, of memory organized to support structured access as torealize randomness in LDPC coding, according to an embodiment of thepresent invention. Structured access can be achieved withoutcompromising the performance of a truly random code by focusing on thegeneration of the parity check matrix. In general, a parity check matrixcan be specified by the connections of the check nodes with the bitnodes. For example, the bit nodes can be divided into groups of a fixedsize, which for illustrative purposes is 392. Additionally, assuming thecheck nodes connected to the first bit node of degree 3, for instance,are numbered as a, b and c, then the check nodes connected to the secondbit node are numbered as a+p, b+p and c+p, the check nodes connected tothe third bit node are numbered as a+2p, b+2p and c+2p etc.; wherep=(number of check nodes)/392. For the next group of 392 bit nodes, thecheck nodes connected to the first bit node are different from a, b, cso that with a suitable choice of p, all the check nodes have the samedegree. A random search is performed over the free constants such thatthe resulting LDPC code is cycle-4 and cycle-6 free. Because of thestructural characteristics of the parity check matrix of the presentinvention, the edge information can stored to permit concurrent accessto a group of relevant edge values during decoding.

In other words, the approach of the present invention facilitates memoryaccess during check node and bit node processing. The values of theedges in the bipartite graph can be stored in a storage medium, such asrandom access memory (RAM). It is noted that for a truly random LDPCcode during check node and bit node processing, the values of the edgeswould need to be accessed one by one in a random fashion. However, sucha conventional access scheme would be too slow for a high data rateapplication. The RAM of FIGS. 15A and 15B are organized in a manner,whereby a large group of relevant edges can be fetched in one clockcycle; accordingly, these values are placed “together” in memory,according to a predetermined scheme or arrangement. It is observed that,in actuality, even with a truly random code, for a group of check nodes(and respectively bit nodes), the relevant edges can be placed next toone another in RAM, but then the relevant edges adjacent to a group ofbit nodes (respectively check nodes) will be randomly scattered in RAM.Therefore, the “togetherness,” under the present invention, stems fromthe design of the parity check matrices themselves. That is, the checkmatrix design ensures that the relevant edges for a group of bit nodesand check nodes are simultaneously placed together in RAM.

As seen in FIGS. 15A and 15B, each box contains the value of an edge,which is multiple bits (e.g., 6). Edge RAM, according to one embodimentof the present invention, is divided into two parts: top edge RAM 1501(FIG. 15A) and bottom edge RAM 1503 (FIG. 15B). Bottom edge RAM 1503contains the edges between bit nodes of degree 2, for example, and checknodes. Top edge RAM contains the edges between bit nodes of degreegreater than 2 and check nodes. Therefore, for every check node, 2adjacent edges are stored in the bottom RAM 1503, and the rest of theedges are stored in the top edge RAM 1501. For example, the size of thetop edge RAM 1501 and bottom edge RAM 1503 for various code rates aregiven in Table 14:

TABLE 14 ½ ⅔ ¾ ⅚ Top Edge 400 × 392 440 × 392 504 × 392 520 × 392 RAMBottom 160 × 392 110 × 392  72 × 392  52 × 392 Edge RAM

Based on Table 14, an edge RAM of size 576×392 is sufficient to storethe edge metrics for all the code rates of ½, ⅔, ¾, and ⅚.

As noted, under this exemplary scenario, a group of 392 bit nodes and392 check nodes are selected for processing at a time. For 392 checknode processing, q=d_(c)−2 consecutive rows are accessed from the topedge RAM 1501, and 2 consecutive rows from the bottom edge RAM 1503. Thevalue of d_(c) depends on the specific code, for example d_(c)=7 forrate ½, d_(c)=10 for rate ⅔, d_(c)=16 for rate ¾ and d_(c)=22 for rate ⅚for the above codes. Of course other values of d_(c) for other codes arepossible. In this instance, q+2 is the degree of each check node.

For bit node processing, if the group of 392 bit nodes has degree 2,their edges are located in 2 consecutive rows of the bottom edge RAM1503. If the bit nodes have degree d>2, their edges are located in somed rows of the top edge RAM 1501. The address of these d rows can bestored in non-volatile memory, such as Read-Only Memory (ROM). The edgesin one of the rows correspond to the first edges of 392 bit nodes, theedges in another row correspond to the second edges of 392 bit nodes,etc. Moreover for each row, the column index of the edge that belongs tothe first bit node in the group of 392 can also be stored in ROM. Theedges that correspond to the second, third, etc. bit nodes follow thestarting column index in a “wrapped around” fashion. For example, if thej^(th) edge in the row belongs to the first bit node, then the (j+1)stedge belongs to the second bit node, (j+2)nd edge belongs to the thirdbit node, . . . , and (j−1)st edge belongs to the 392^(th) bit node.

With the organization shown in FIGS. 15A and 15B, speed of memory accessis greatly enhanced during LDPC coding.

FIG. 16 illustrates a computer system upon which an embodiment accordingto the present invention can be implemented. The computer system 1600includes a bus 1601 or other communication mechanism for communicatinginformation, and a processor 1603 coupled to the bus 1601 for processinginformation. The computer system 1600 also includes main memory 1605,such as a random access memory (RAM) or other dynamic storage device,coupled to the bus 1601 for storing information and instructions to beexecuted by the processor 1603. Main memory 1605 can also be used forstoring temporary variables or other intermediate information duringexecution of instructions to be executed by the processor 1603. Thecomputer system 1600 further includes a read only memory (ROM) 1607 orother static storage device coupled to the bus 1601 for storing staticinformation and instructions for the processor 1603. A storage device1609, such as a magnetic disk or optical disk, is additionally coupledto the bus 1601 for storing information and instructions.

The computer system 1600 may be coupled via the bus 1601 to a display1611, such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), liquid crystal display, activematrix display, or plasma display, for displaying information to acomputer user. An input device 1613, such as a keyboard includingalphanumeric and other keys, is coupled to the bus 1601 forcommunicating information and command selections to the processor 1603.Another type of user input device is cursor control 1615, such as amouse, a trackball, or cursor direction keys for communicating directioninformation and command selections to the processor 1603 and forcontrolling cursor movement on the display 1611.

According to one embodiment of the invention, generation of LDPC codesis provided by the computer system 1600 in response to the processor1603 executing an arrangement of instructions contained in main memory1605. Such instructions can be read into main memory 1605 from anothercomputer-readable medium, such as the storage device 1609. Execution ofthe arrangement of instructions contained in main memory 1605 causes theprocessor 1603 to perform the process steps described herein. One ormore processors in a multi-processing arrangement may also be employedto execute the instructions contained in main memory 1605. Inalternative embodiments, hard-wired circuitry may be used in place of orin combination with software instructions to implement the embodiment ofthe present invention. Thus, embodiments of the present invention arenot limited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry andsoftware.

The computer system 1600 also includes a communication interface 1617coupled to bus 1601. The communication interface 1617 provides a two-waydata communication coupling to a network link 1619 connected to a localnetwork 1621. For example, the communication interface 1617 may be adigital subscriber line (DSL) card or modem, an integrated servicesdigital network (ISDN) card, a cable modem, or a telephone modem toprovide a data communication connection to a corresponding type oftelephone line. As another example, communication interface 1617 may bea local area network (LAN) card (e.g. for Ethernet™ or an AsynchronousTransfer Model (ATM) network) to provide a data communication connectionto a compatible LAN. Wireless links can also be implemented. In any suchimplementation, communication interface 1617 sends and receiveselectrical, electromagnetic, or optical signals that carry digital datastreams representing various types of information. Further, thecommunication interface 1617 can include peripheral interface devices,such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, a PCMCIA (PersonalComputer Memory Card International Association) interface, etc.

The network link 1619 typically provides data communication through oneor more networks to other data devices. For example, the network link1619 may provide a connection through local network 1621 to a hostcomputer 1623, which has connectivity to a network 1625 (e.g. a widearea network (WAN) or the global packet data communication network nowcommonly referred to as the “Internet”) or to data equipment operated byservice provider. The local network 1621 and network 1625 both useelectrical, electromagnetic, or optical signals to convey informationand instructions. The signals through the various networks and thesignals on network link 1619 and through communication interface 1617,which communicate digital data with computer system 1600, are exemplaryforms of carrier waves bearing the information and instructions.

The computer system 1600 can send messages and receive data, includingprogram code, through the network(s), network link 1619, andcommunication interface 1617. In the Internet example, a server (notshown) might transmit requested code belonging to an application programfor implementing an embodiment of the present invention through thenetwork 1625, local network 1621 and communication interface 1617. Theprocessor 1603 may execute the transmitted code while being receivedand/or store the code in storage device 169, or other non-volatilestorage for later execution. In this manner, computer system 1600 mayobtain application code in the form of a carrier wave.

The term “computer-readable medium” as used herein refers to any mediumthat participates in providing instructions to the processor 1603 forexecution. Such a medium may take many forms, including but not limitedto non-volatile media and volatile media. Non-volatile media include,for example, optical or magnetic disks, such as storage device 1609.Volatile media include dynamic memory, such as main memory 1605.Transmission media include coaxial cables, copper wire and fiber optics,including the wires that comprise bus 1601. Common forms ofcomputer-readable media include, for example, a floppy disk, a flexibledisk, hard disk, magnetic tape, any other magnetic medium, a CD-ROM,CDRW, DVD, any other optical medium, punch cards, paper tape, opticalmark sheets, any other physical medium with patterns of holes or otheroptically recognizable indicia, a RAM, a PROM, and EPROM, a FLASH-EPROM,any other memory chip or cartridge, or any other non-transitory mediumfrom which a computer can read.

Various forms of computer-readable media may be involved in providinginstructions to a processor for execution. For example, the instructionsfor carrying out at least part of the present invention may initially beborne on a magnetic disk of a remote computer. In such a scenario, theremote computer loads the instructions into main memory and sends theinstructions over a telephone line using a modem. A modem of a localcomputer system receives the data on the telephone line and uses aninfrared transmitter to convert the data to an infrared signal andtransmit the infrared signal to a portable computing device, such as apersonal digital assistance (PDA) and a laptop. An infrared detector onthe portable computing device receives the information and instructionsborne by the infrared signal and places the data on a bus. The busconveys the data to main memory, from which a processor retrieves andexecutes the instructions. The instructions received by main memory mayoptionally be stored on storage device either before or after executionby processor.

Accordingly, the various embodiments of the present invention provide anapproach for encoding structured Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes.Structure of the LDPC codes is provided by restricting portion part ofthe parity check matrix to be lower triangular and/or satisfying otherrequirements such that the communication between bit nodes and checknodes of the decoder is simplified. Memory storing informationrepresenting the structured parity check matrix is accessed. Theinformation is organized in tabular form, wherein each row representsoccurrences of one values within a first column of a group of columns ofthe parity check matrix. The rows correspond to groups of columns of theparity check matrix, wherein subsequent columns within each of thegroups are derived according to a predetermined operation (e.g., cyclicshift, addition, etc.). An LDPC coded signal based on the storedinformation representing the parity check matrix. According to oneembodiment of the present invention, a Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH)encoder is utilized by the transmitter to encode an input signal usingBCH codes, wherein the output LDPC coded signal corresponding to theinput signal represents a code having an outer BCH code and an innerLDPC code. Further, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) encoder is suppliedto encode the input signal according to a CRC code. The above approachadvantageously yields reduced complexity without sacrificingperformance.

While the present invention has been described in connection with anumber of embodiments and implementations, the present invention is notso limited but covers various obvious modifications and equivalentarrangements, which fall within the purview of the appended claims.

1. A method comprising: generating an inner Low Density Parity Check(LDPC) code using parity bit addresses specified by any of Tables 1-8by, initializing n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc) parity bits (p₀, p₁, . . . , p_(n)_(ldpc) _(-k) _(ldpc) ₋₁) for a block of k_(ldpc) information bits, (i₀,i₁, . . . , i_(k) _(ldpc) ₋₁), accumulating a first information bit, i₀,at parity bit addresses specified in a first row of a given one ofTables 1-8, for information bits i_(m), m=1, 2, . . . , 359,accumulating at parity bit addresses defined according to {x+m mod M×q}mod(n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)), wherein x denotes the address of the parity bitaccumulator corresponding to the first bit, i₀, in the group, and q is acode rate dependent constant, wherein the accumulating steps arerepeated for successive groups of 360 new information bits forsuccessive rows of the given one of Tables 1-8, after the accumulatingsteps have been repeated for all of the information bits of the block ofk_(ldpc) information bits, obtaining final parity bits, starting withi=1, p_(i)=p_(i)⊕p_(i−1), i=1, 2, . . . , n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)−1, whereinthe content of p_(i), i=0, 1, . . . , n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)−1 is equal tothe parity bit p_(i), the Tables 1-8 being: TABLE 1 Address of ParityBit Accumulators (Rate ⅔) 0 10491 16043 506 12826 8065 8226 2767 24018673 9279 10579 20928 1 17819 8313 6433 6224 5120 5824 12812 17187 994013447 13825 18483 2 17957 6024 8681 18628 12794 5915 14576 10970 1206420437 4455 7151 3 19777 6183 9972 14536 8182 17749 11341 5556 4379 1743415477 18532 4 4651 19689 1608 659 16707 14335 6143 3058 14618 1789420684 5306 5 9778 2552 12096 12369 15198 16890 4851 3109 1700 18725 199715882 6 486 6111 13743 11537 5591 7433 15227 14145 1483 3887 17431 124307 20647 14311 11734 4180 8110 5525 12141 15761 18661 18441 10569 8192 83791 14759 15264 19918 10132 9062 10010 12786 10675 9682 19246 5454 919525 9485 7777 19999 8378 9209 3163 20232 6690 16518 716 7353 10 45886709 20202 10905 915 4317 11073 13576 16433 368 3508 21171 11 14072 403319959 12608 631 19494 14160 8249 10223 21504 12395 4322 12 13800 1416113 2948 9647 14 14693 16027 15 20506 11082 16 1143 9020 17 13501 4014 181548 2190 19 12216 21556 20 2095 19897 21 4189 7958 22 15940 10048 23515 12614 24 8501 8450 25 17595 16784 26 5913 8495 27 16394 10423 287409 6981 29 6678 15939 30 20344 12987 31 2510 14588 32 17918 6655 336703 19451 34 496 4217 35 7290 5766 36 10521 8925 37 20379 11905 38 40905838 39 19082 17040 40 20233 12352 41 19365 19546 42 6249 19030 43 1103719193 44 19760 11772 45 19644 7428 46 16076 3521 47 11779 21062 48 130629682 49 8934 5217 50 11087 3319 51 18892 4356 52 7894 3898 53 5963 436054 7346 11726 55 5182 5609 56 2412 17295 57 9845 20494 58 6687 1864 5920564 5216 0 18226 17207 1 9380 8266 2 7073 3065 3 18252 13437 4 916115642 5 10714 10153 6 11585 9078 7 5359 9418 8 9024 9515 9 1206 16354 1014994 1102 11 9375 20796 12 15964 6027 13 14789 6452 14 8002 18591 1514742 14089 16 253 3045 17 1274 19286 18 14777 2044 19 13920 9900 20 4527374 21 18206 9921 22 6131 5414 23 10077 9726 24 12045 5479 25 4322 799026 15616 5550 27 15561 10661 28 20718 7387 29 2518 18804 30 8984 2600 316516 17909 32 11148 98 33 20559 3704 34 7510 1569 35 16000 11692 36 914710303 37 16650 191 38 15577 18685 39 17167 20917 40 4256 3391 41 2009217219 42 9218 5056 43 18429 8472 44 12093 20753 45 16345 12748 46 1602311095 47 5048 17595 48 18995 4817 49 16483 3536 50 1439 16148 51 36613039 52 19010 18121 53 8968 11793 54 13427 18003 55 5303 3083 56 53116668 57 4771 6722 58 5695 7960 59 3589 14630

TABLE 2 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅚) 0 4362 416 8909 41563216 3112 2560 2912 6405 8593 4969 6723 1 2479 1786 8978 3011 4339 93136397 2957 7288 5484 6031 10217 2 10175 9009 9889 3091 4985 7267 40928874 5671 2777 2189 8716 3 9052 4795 3924 3370 10058 1128 9996 101659360 4297 434 5138 4 2379 7834 4835 2327 9843 804 329 8353 7167 30701528 7311 5 3435 7871 348 3693 1876 6585 10340 7144 5870 2084 4052 27806 3917 3111 3476 1304 10331 5939 5199 1611 1991 699 8316 9960 7 68833237 1717 10752 7891 9764 4745 3888 10009 4176 4614 1567 8 10587 21951689 2968 5420 2580 2883 6496 111 6023 1024 4449 9 3786 8593 2074 33215057 1450 3840 5444 6572 3094 9892 1512 10 8548 1848 10372 4585 73136536 6379 1766 9462 2456 5606 9975 11 8204 10593 7935 3636 3882 394 59688561 2395 7289 9267 9978 12 7795 74 1633 9542 6867 7352 6417 7568 10623725 2531 9115 13 7151 2482 4260 5003 10105 7419 9203 6691 8798 2092 82633755 14 3600 570 4527 200 9718 6771 1995 8902 5446 768 1103 6520 15 63047621 16 6498 9209 17 7293 6786 18 5950 1708 19 8521 1793 20 6174 7854 219773 1190 22 9517 10268 23 2181 9349 24 1949 5560 25 1556 555 26 86003827 27 5072 1057 28 7928 3542 29 3226 3762 0 7045 2420 1 9645 2641 22774 2452 3 5331 2031 4 9400 7503 5 1850 2338 6 10456 9774 7 1692 9276 810037 4038 9 3964 338 10 2640 5087 11 858 3473 12 5582 5683 13 9523 91614 4107 1559 15 4506 3491 16 8191 4182 17 10192 6157 18 5668 3305 193449 1540 20 4766 2697 21 4069 6675 22 1117 1016 23 5619 3085 24 84838400 25 8255 394 26 6338 5042 27 6174 5119 28 7203 1989 29 1781 5174 01464 3559 1 3376 4214 2 7238 67 3 10595 8831 4 1221 6513 5 5300 4652 61429 9749 7 7878 5131 8 4435 10284 9 6331 5507 10 6662 4941 11 961410238 12 8400 8025 13 9156 5630 14 7067 8878 15 9027 3415 16 1690 386617 2854 8469 18 6206 630 19 363 5453 20 4125 7008 21 1612 6702 22 90699226 23 5767 4060 24 3743 9237 25 7018 5572 26 8892 4536 27 853 6064 288069 5893 29 2051 2885 0 10691 3153 1 3602 4055 2 328 1717 3 2219 9299 41939 7898 5 617 206 6 8544 1374 7 10676 3240 8 6672 9489 9 3170 7457 107868 5731 11 6121 10732 12 4843 9132 13 580 9591 14 6267 9290 15 30092268 16 195 2419 17 8016 1557 18 1516 9195 19 8062 9064 20 2095 8968 21753 7326 22 6291 3833 23 2614 7844 24 2303 646 25 2075 611 26 4687 36227 8684 9940 28 4830 2065 29 7038 1363 0 1769 7837 1 3801 1689 2 100702359 3 3667 9918 4 1914 6920 5 4244 5669 6 10245 7821 7 7648 3944 8 33105488 9 6346 9666 10 7088 6122 11 1291 7827 12 10592 8945 13 3609 7120 149168 9112 15 6203 8052 16 3330 2895 17 4264 10563 18 10556 6496 19 88077645 20 1999 4530 21 9202 6818 22 3403 1734 23 2106 9023 24 6881 3883 253895 2171 26 4062 6424 27 3755 9536 28 4683 2131 29 7347 8027

TABLE 3 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ½) 54 9318 14392 2756126909 10219 2534 8597 55 7263 4635 2530 28130 3033 23830 3651 56 2473123583 26036 17299 5750 792 9169 57 5811 26154 18653 11551 15447 1368516264 58 12610 11347 28768 2792 3174 29371 12997 59 16789 16018 214496165 21202 15850 3186 60 31016 21449 17618 6213 12166 8334 18212 6122836 14213 11327 5896 718 11727 9308 62 2091 24941 29966 23634 901315587 5444 63 22207 3983 16904 28534 21415 27524 25912 64 25687 450122193 14665 14798 16158 5491 65 4520 17094 23397 4264 22370 16941 2152666 10490 6182 32370 9597 30841 25954 2762 67 22120 22865 29870 1514713668 14955 19235 68 6689 18408 18346 9918 25746 5443 20645 69 2998212529 13858 4746 30370 10023 24828 70 1262 28032 29888 13063 24033 219517863 71 6594 29642 31451 14831 9509 9335 31552 72 1358 6454 16633 2035424598 624 5265 73 19529 295 18011 3080 13364 8032 15323 74 11981 15107960 21462 9129 11370 25741 75 9276 29656 4543 30699 20646 21921 2805076 15975 25634 5520 31119 13715 21949 19605 77 18688 4608 31755 3016513103 10706 29224 78 21514 23117 12245 26035 31656 25631 30699 79 967424966 31285 29908 17042 24588 31857 80 21856 27777 29919 27000 1489711409 7122 81 29773 23310 263 4877 28622 20545 22092 82 15605 5651 218643967 14419 22757 15896 83 30145 1759 10139 29223 26086 10556 5098 8418815 16575 2936 24457 26738 6030 505 85 30326 22298 27562 20131 263906247 24791 86 928 29246 21246 12400 15311 32309 18608 87 20314 602526689 16302 2296 3244 19613 88 6237 11943 22851 15642 23857 15112 2094789 26403 25168 19038 18384 8882 12719 7093 0 14567 24965 1 3908 100 210279 240 3 24102 764 4 12383 4173 5 13861 15918 6 21327 1046 7 528814579 8 28158 8069 9 16583 11098 10 16681 28363 11 13980 24725 12 3216917989 13 10907 2767 14 21557 3818 15 26676 12422 16 7676 8754 17 1490520232 18 15719 24646 19 31942 8589 20 19978 27197 21 27060 15071 22 607126649 23 10393 11176 24 9597 13370 25 7081 17677 26 1433 19513 27 269259014 28 19202 8900 29 18152 30647 30 20803 1737 31 11804 25221 32 3168317783 33 29694 9345 34 12280 26611 35 6526 26122 36 26165 11241 37 766626962 38 16290 8480 39 11774 10120 40 30051 30426 41 1335 15424 42 686517742 43 31779 12489 44 32120 21001 45 14508 6996 46 979 25024 47 455421896 48 7989 21777 49 4972 20661 50 6612 2730 51 12742 4418 52 29194595 53 19267 20113

TABLE 4 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ¾) 0 6385 7901 1461113389 11200 3252 5243 2504 2722 821 7374 1 11359 2698 357 13824 127727244 6752 15310 852 2001 11417 2 7862 7977 6321 13612 12197 14449 1513713860 1708 6399 13444 3 1560 11804 6975 13292 3646 3812 8772 7306 579514327 7866 4 7626 11407 14599 9689 1628 2113 10809 9283 1230 15241 48705 1610 5699 15876 9446 12515 1400 6303 5411 14181 13925 7358 6 4059 88363405 7853 7992 15336 5970 10368 10278 9675 4651 7 4441 3963 9153 210912683 7459 12030 12221 629 15212 406 8 6007 8411 5771 3497 543 14202 8759186 6235 13908 3563 9 3232 6625 4795 546 9781 2071 7312 3399 7250 493212652 10 8820 10088 11090 7069 6585 13134 10158 7183 488 7455 9238 111903 10818 119 215 7558 11046 10615 11545 14784 7961 15619 12 3655 87364917 15874 5129 2134 15944 14768 7150 2692 1469 13 8316 3820 505 89236757 806 7957 4216 15589 13244 2622 14 14463 4852 15733 3041 11193 1286013673 8152 6551 15108 8758 15 3149 11981 16 13416 6906 17 13098 13352 182009 14460 19 7207 4314 20 3312 3945 21 4418 6248 22 2669 13975 23 75719023 24 14172 2967 25 7271 7138 26 6135 13670 27 7490 14559 28 8657 246629 8599 12834 30 3470 3152 31 13917 4365 32 6024 13730 33 10973 14182 342464 13167 35 5281 15049 36 1103 1849 37 2058 1069 38 9654 6095 39 143117667 40 15617 8146 41 4588 11218 42 13660 6243 43 8578 7874 44 117412686 0 1022 1264 1 12604 9965 2 8217 2707 3 3156 11793 4 354 1514 5 697814058 6 7922 16079 7 15087 12138 8 5053 6470 9 12687 14932 10 15458 176311 8121 1721 12 12431 549 13 4129 7091 14 1426 8415 15 9783 7604 16 629511329 17 1409 12061 18 8065 9087 19 2918 8438 20 1293 14115 21 392213851 22 3851 4000 23 5865 1768 24 2655 14957 25 5565 6332 26 4303 1263127 11653 12236 28 16025 7632 29 4655 14128 30 9584 13123 31 13987 959732 15409 12110 33 8754 15490 34 7416 15325 35 2909 15549 36 2995 8257 379406 4791 38 11111 4854 39 2812 8521 40 8476 14717 41 7820 15360 42 11797939 43 2357 8678 44 7703 6216 0 3477 7067 1 3931 13845 2 7675 12899 31754 8187 4 7785 1400 5 9213 5891 6 2494 7703 7 2576 7902 8 4821 15682 910426 11935 10 1810 904 11 11332 9264 12 11312 3570 13 14916 2650 147679 7842 15 6089 13084 16 3938 2751 17 8509 4648 18 12204 8917 19 574912443 20 12613 4431 21 1344 4014 22 8488 13850 23 1730 14896 24 149427126 25 14983 8863 26 6578 8564 27 4947 396 28 297 12805 29 13878 669230 11857 11186 31 14395 11493 32 16145 12251 33 13462 7428 34 1452613119 35 2535 11243 36 6465 12690 37 6872 9334 38 15371 14023 39 810110187 40 11963 4848 41 15125 6119 42 8051 14465 43 11139 5167 44 288314521

TABLE 5 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅘) 0 149 11212 55756360 12559 8108 8505 408 10026 12828 1 5237 490 10677 4998 3869 37343092 3509 7703 10305 2 8742 5553 2820 7085 12116 10485 564 7795 29722157 3 2699 4304 8350 712 2841 3250 4731 10105 517 7516 4 12067 135111992 12191 11267 5161 537 6166 4246 2363 5 6828 7107 2127 3724 574311040 10756 4073 1011 3422 6 11259 1216 9526 1466 10816 940 3744 281511506 11573 7 4549 11507 1118 1274 11751 5207 7854 12803 4047 6484 88430 4115 9440 413 4455 2262 7915 12402 8579 7052 9 3885 9126 5665 45052343 253 4707 3742 4166 1556 10 1704 8936 6775 8639 8179 7954 8234 78508883 8713 11 11716 4344 9087 11264 2274 8832 9147 11930 6054 5455 127323 3970 10329 2170 8262 3854 2087 12899 9497 11700 13 4418 1467 24905841 817 11453 533 11217 11962 5251 14 1541 4525 7976 3457 9536 77253788 2982 6307 5997 15 11484 2739 4023 12107 6516 551 2572 6628 81509852 16 6070 1761 4627 6534 7913 3730 11866 1813 12306 8249 17 124415489 8748 7837 7660 2102 11341 2936 6712 11977 18 10155 4210 19 101010483 20 8900 10250 21 10243 12278 22 7070 4397 23 12271 3887 24 119806836 25 9514 4356 26 7137 10281 27 11881 2526 28 1969 11477 29 304410921 30 2236 8724 31 9104 6340 32 7342 8582 33 11675 10405 34 646712775 35 3186 12198 0 9621 11445 1 7486 5611 2 4319 4879 3 2196 344 47527 6650 5 10693 2440 6 6755 2706 7 5144 5998 8 11043 8033 9 4846 443510 4157 9228 11 12270 6562 12 11954 7592 13 7420 2592 14 8810 9636 15689 5430 16 920 1304 17 1253 11934 18 9559 6016 19 312 7589 20 4439 419721 4002 9555 22 12232 7779 23 1494 8782 24 10749 3969 25 4368 3479 266316 5342 27 2455 3493 28 12157 7405 29 6598 11495 30 11805 4455 31 96252090 32 4731 2321 33 3578 2608 34 8504 1849 35 4027 1151 0 5647 4935 14219 1870 2 10968 8054 3 6970 5447 4 3217 5638 5 8972 669 6 5618 12472 71457 1280 8 8868 3883 9 8866 1224 10 8371 5972 11 266 4405 12 3706 324413 6039 5844 14 7200 3283 15 1502 11282 16 12318 2202 17 4523 965 189587 7011 19 2552 2051 20 12045 10306 21 11070 5104 22 6627 6906 23 98892121 24 829 9701 25 2201 1819 26 6689 12925 27 2139 8757 28 12004 594829 8704 3191 30 8171 10933 31 6297 7116 32 616 7146 33 5142 9761 3410377 8138 35 7616 5811 0 7285 9863 1 7764 10867 2 12343 9019 3 44148331 4 3464 642 5 6960 2039 6 786 3021 7 710 2086 8 7423 5601 9 81204885 10 12385 11990 11 9739 10034 12 424 10162 13 1347 7597 14 1450 11215 7965 8478 16 8945 7397 17 6590 8316 18 6838 9011 19 6174 9410 20 255113 21 6197 5835 22 12902 3844 23 4377 3505 24 5478 8672 25 4453 2132 269724 1380 27 12131 11526 28 12323 9511 29 8231 1752 30 497 9022 31 92883080 32 2481 7515 33 2696 268 34 4023 12341 35 7108 5553

TABLE 6 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅗) 22422 10282 1162619997 11161 2922 3122 99 5625 17064 8270 179 25087 16218 17015 828 2004125656 4186 11629 22599 17305 22515 6463 11049 22853 25706 14388 550019245 8732 2177 13555 11346 17265 3069 16581 22225 12563 19717 2357711555 25496 6853 25403 5218 15925 21766 16529 14487 7643 10715 1744211119 5679 14155 24213 21000 1116 15620 5340 8636 16693 1434 5635 65169482 20189 1066 15013 25361 14243 18506 22236 20912 8952 5421 15691 612621595 500 6904 13059 6802 8433 4694 5524 14216 3685 19721 25420 993723813 9047 25651 16826 21500 24814 6344 17382 7064 13929 4004 1655212818 8720 5286 2206 22517 2429 19065 2921 21611 1873 7507 5661 2300623128 20543 19777 1770 4636 20900 14931 9247 12340 11008 12966 4471 273116445 791 6635 14556 18865 22421 22124 12697 9803 25485 7744 18254 113139004 19982 23963 18912 7206 12500 4382 20067 6177 21007 1195 23547 24837756 11158 14646 20534 3647 17728 11676 11843 12937 4402 8261 22944 930624009 10012 11081 3746 24325 8060 19826 842 8836 2898 5019 7575 745525244 4736 14400 22981 5543 8006 24203 13053 1120 5128 3482 9270 1305915825 7453 23747 3656 24585 16542 17507 22462 14670 15627 15290 419822748 5842 13395 23918 16985 14929 3726 25350 24157 24896 16365 1642313461 16615 8107 24741 3604 25904 8716 9604 20365 3729 17245 18448 986220831 25326 20517 24618 13282 5099 14183 8804 16455 17646 15376 1819425528 1777 6066 21855 14372 12517 4488 17490 1400 8135 23375 20879 84764084 12936 25536 22309 16582 6402 24360 25119 23586 128 4761 10443 225368607 9752 25446 15053 1856 4040 377 21160 13474 5451 17170 5938 1025611972 24210 17833 22047 16108 13075 9648 24546 13150 23867 7309 197982988 16858 4825 23950 15125 20526 3553 11525 23366 2452 17626 1926520172 18060 24593 13255 1552 18839 21132 20119 15214 14705 7096 101745663 18651 19700 12524 14033 4127 2971 17499 16287 22368 21463 794318880 5567 8047 23363 6797 10651 24471 14325 4081 7258 4949 7044 1078797 22910 20474 4318 21374 13231 22985 5056 3821 23718 14178 9978 1903023594 8895 25358 6199 22056 7749 13310 3999 23697 16445 22636 5225 2243724153 9442 7978 12177 2893 20778 3175 8645 11863 24623 10311 25767 17057369120473 11294 9914 22815 2574 8439 3699 5431 24840 21908 16088 182448208 5755 19059 8541 24924 6454 11234 10492 16406 10831 11436 9649 1626411275 24953 2347 12667 19190 7257 7174 24819 2938 2522 11749 3627 596913862 1538 23176 6353 2855 17720 2472 7428 573 15036 0 18539 18661 110502 3002 2 9368 10761 3 12299 7828 4 15048 13362 5 18444 24640 6 2077519175 7 18970 10971 8 5329 19982 9 11296 18655 10 15046 20659 11 730022140 12 22029 14477 13 11129 742 14 13254 13813 15 19234 13273 16 607921122 17 22782 5828 18 19775 4247 19 1660 19413 20 4403 3649 21 1337125851 22 22770 21784 23 10757 14131 24 16071 21617 25 6393 3725 26 59719968 27 5743 8084 28 6770 9548 29 4285 17542 30 13568 22599 31 17864617 32 23238 11648 33 19627 2030 34 13601 13458 35 13740 17328 36 2501213944 37 22513 6687 38 4934 12587 39 21197 5133 40 22705 6938 41 753424633 42 24400 12797 43 21911 25712 44 12039 1140 45 24306 1021 46 1401220747 47 11265 15219 48 4670 15531 49 9417 14359 50 2415 6504 51 2496424690 52 14443 8816 53 6926 1291 54 6209 20806 55 13915 4079 56 2441013196 57 13505 6117 58 9869 8220 59 1570 6044 60 25780 17387 61 2067124913 62 24558 20591 63 12402 3702 64 8314 1357 65 20071 14616 66 170143688 67 19837 946 68 15195 12136 69 7758 22808 70 3564 2925 71 3434 7769

TABLE 7 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 8/9) 0 6235 2848 3222 15800 3492 5348 2 2757 927 90 3 6961 4516 4739 4 1172 3237 6264 5 19272425 3683 6 3714 6309 2495 7 3070 6342 7154 8 2428 613 3761 9 2906 2645927 10 1716 1950 4273 11 4613 6179 3491 12 4865 3286 6005 13 1343 59233529 14 4589 4035 2132 15 1579 3920 6737 16 1644 1191 5998 17 1482 23814620 18 6791 6014 6596 19 2738 5918 3786 0 5156 6166 1 1504 4356 2 1301904 3 6027 3187 4 6718 759 5 6240 2870 6 2343 1311 7 1039 5465 8 66172513 9 1588 5222 10 6561 535 11 4765 2054 12 5966 6892 13 1969 3869 143571 2420 15 4632 981 16 3215 4163 17 973 3117 18 3802 6198 19 3794 39480 3196 6126 1 573 1909 2 850 4034 3 5622 1601 4 6005 524 5 5251 5783 6172 2032 7 1875 2475 8 497 1291 9 2566 3430 10 1249 740 11 2944 1948 126528 2899 13 2243 3616 14 867 3733 15 1374 4702 16 4698 2285 17 47603917 18 1859 4058 19 6141 3527 0 2148 5066 1 1306 145 2 2319 871 3 34631061 4 5554 6647 5 5837 339 6 5821 4932 7 6356 4756 8 3930 418 9 2113094 10 1007 4928 11 3584 1235 12 6982 2869 13 1612 1013 14 953 4964 154555 4410 16 4925 4842 17 5778 600 18 6509 2417 19 1260 4903 0 3369 30311 3557 3224 2 3028 583 3 3258 440 4 6226 6655 5 4895 1094 6 1481 6847 74433 1932 8 2107 1649 9 2119 2065 10 4003 6388 11 6720 3622 12 3694 452113 1164 7050 14 1965 3613 15 4331 66 16 2970 1796 17 4652 3218 18 17624777 19 5736 1399 0 970 2572 1 2062 6599 2 4597 4870 3 1228 6913 4 41591037 5 2916 2362 6 395 1226 7 6911 4548 8 4618 2241 9 4120 4280 10 5825474 11 2154 5558 12 3793 5471 13 5707 1595 14 1403 325 15 6601 5183 166369 4569 17 4846 896 18 7092 6184 19 6764 7127 0 6358 1951 1 3117 69602 2710 7062 3 1133 3604 4 3694 657 5 1355 110 6 3329 6736 7 2505 3407 82462 4806 9 4216 214 10 5348 5619 11 6627 6243 12 2644 5073 13 4212 508814 3463 3889 15 5306 478 16 4320 6121 17 3961 1125 18 5699 1195 19 6511792 0 3934 2778 1 3238 6587 2 1111 6596 3 1457 6226 4 1446 3885 5 39074043 6 6839 2873 7 1733 5615 8 5202 4269 9 3024 4722 10 5445 6372 11 3701828 12 4695 1600 13 680 2074 14 1801 6690 15 2669 1377 16 2463 1681 175972 5171 18 5728 4284 19 1696 1459

TABLE 8 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 9/10) 0 5611 2563 29001 5220 3143 4813 2 2481 834 81 3 6265 4064 4265 4 1055 2914 5638 5 17342182 3315 6 3342 5678 2246 7 2185 552 3385 8 2615 236 5334 9 1546 17553846 10 4154 5561 3142 11 4382 2957 5400 12 1209 5329 3179 13 1421 35286063 14 1480 1072 5398 15 3843 1777 4369 16 1334 2145 4163 17 2368 5055260 0 6118 5405 1 2994 4370 2 3405 1669 3 4640 5550 4 1354 3921 5 1171713 6 5425 2866 7 6047 683 8 5616 2582 9 2108 1179 10 933 4921 11 59532261 12 1430 4699 13 5905 480 14 4289 1846 15 5374 6208 16 1775 3476 173216 2178 0 4165 884 1 2896 3744 2 874 2801 3 3423 5579 4 3404 3552 52876 5515 6 516 1719 7 765 3631 8 5059 1441 9 5629 598 10 5405 473 114724 5210 12 155 1832 13 1689 2229 14 449 1164 15 2308 3088 16 1122 66917 2268 5758 0 5878 2609 1 782 3359 2 1231 4231 3 4225 2052 4 4286 35175 5531 3184 6 1935 4560 7 1174 131 8 3115 956 9 3129 1088 10 5238 444011 5722 4280 12 3540 375 13 191 2782 14 906 4432 15 3225 1111 16 62962583 17 1457 903 0 855 4475 1 4097 3970 2 4433 4361 3 5198 541 4 11464426 5 3202 2902 6 2724 525 7 1083 4124 8 2326 6003 9 5605 5990 10 43761579 11 4407 984 12 1332 6163 13 5359 3975 14 1907 1854 15 3601 5748 166056 3266 17 3322 4085 0 1768 3244 1 2149 144 2 1589 4291 3 5154 1252 41855 5939 5 4820 2706 6 1475 3360 7 4266 693 8 4156 2018 9 2103 752 103710 3853 11 5123 931 12 6146 3323 13 1939 5002 14 5140 1437 15 1263 29316 5949 4665 17 4548 6380 0 3171 4690 1 5204 2114 2 6384 5565 3 57221757 4 2805 6264 5 1202 2616 6 1018 3244 7 4018 5289 8 2257 3067 9 24833073 10 1196 5329 11 649 3918 12 3791 4581 13 5028 3803 14 3119 3506 154779 431 16 3888 5510 17 4387 4084 0 5836 1692 1 5126 1078 2 5721 6165 33540 2499 4 2225 6348 5 1044 1484 6 6323 4042 7 1313 5603 8 1303 3496 93516 3639 10 5161 2293 11 4682 3845 12 3045 643 13 2818 2616 14 3267 64915 6236 593 16 646 2948 17 4213 1442 0 5779 1596 1 2403 1237 2 2217 15143 5609 716 4 5155 3858 5 1517 1312 6 2554 3158 7 5280 2643 8 4990 1353 95648 1170 10 1152 4366 11 3561 5368 12 3581 1411 13 5647 4661 14 15425401 15 5078 2687 16 316 1755 17 3392
 1991.


2. A method according to claim 1, further comprising: generating anouter Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) t error correcting code using agenerator polynomial obtained by multiplying the first t polynomials ofthe following table, g₁(x) 1 + x² + x³ + x⁵ + x¹⁶ g₂(x) 1 + x + x⁴ +x⁵ + x⁶ + x⁸ + x¹⁶ g₃(x) 1 + x² + x³ + x⁴ + x⁵ + x⁷ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ +x¹¹ + x¹⁶ g₄(x) 1 + x² + x⁴ + x⁶ + x⁹ + x¹¹ + x¹² + x¹⁴ + x¹⁶ g₅(x) 1 +x + x² + x³ + x⁵ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹¹ + x¹² + x¹⁶ g₆(x) 1 + x² + x⁴ +x⁵ + x⁷ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹² + x¹³ + x¹⁴ + x¹⁵ + x¹⁶ g₇(x) 1 + x² +x⁵ + x⁶ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹¹ + x¹³ + x¹⁵ + x¹⁶ g₈(x) 1 + x + x² + x⁵ +x⁶ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹² + x¹³ + x¹⁴ + x¹⁶ g₉(x) 1 + x⁵ + x⁷ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ +x¹¹ + x¹⁶ g₁₀(x) 1 + x + x² + x⁵ + x⁷ + x⁸ + x¹⁰ + x¹² + x¹³ + x¹⁴ + x¹⁶g₁₁(x) 1 + x² + x³ + x⁵ + x⁹ + x¹¹ + x¹² + x¹³ + x¹⁶ g₁₂(x) 1 + x + x⁵ +x⁶ + x⁷ + x⁹ + x¹¹ + x¹² + x¹⁶.


3. A method according to claim 2, wherein the code dependent constant qis 60, 30, 90, 45, 36, 72, 20, and 18 for code rates ⅔, ⅚, ½, ¾, ⅘, ⅗,8/9, and 9/10, respectively.
 4. A method according to claim 2, whereinm=(m_(k) _(bch) ₋₁, m_(k) _(bch) ₋₂, . . . , m₁, m₀) information bitsare encoded onto a codeword c=(m_(k) _(bch) ₋₁, m_(k) _(bch) ₋₂, . . . ,m₁, m₀, d_(n) _(bch) _(-k) _(bch) ₋₁d_(n) _(bch) _(-k) _(bch) ₋₂, . . ., d₁, d₀), the method further comprising: multiplying a messagepolynomial m(x)=m_(k) _(bch) ₋₁x^(k) ^(bch) ⁻¹+m_(k) _(bch) ₋₂x^(k)^(bch) ⁻²+ . . . +m₁x+m₀ with x^(n) ^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch) ; and dividingx^(n) ^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch) m(x) divided by g(x), wherein d(x)=d_(n)_(bch) _(-k) _(bch) ₋₁x^(n) ^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch) ⁻¹+ . . . +d₁x+d₀ is aremainder, and the codeword polynomial is c(x)=x^(n) ^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch)m(x)+d(x).
 5. A method according to claim 1, wherein n_(ldpc), is64,800.
 6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the information bitsrepresent a Motion Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) packet.
 7. Acomputer-readable storage medium carrying one or more sequences of oneor more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors,cause the one or more processors to perform the method of claim
 1. 8. Anapparatus comprising: logic configured to generate an inner Low DensityParity Check (LDPC) code using parity bit addresses specified by any ofTables 1-8 by, initializing n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc) parity bits (p₀, p₁, . . ., p_(n) _(ldpc) _(-k) _(ldpc) ₋₁) for a block of k_(ldpc) informationbits, (i₀, i₁, . . . , i_(k) _(ldpc) ₋₁), accumulating a firstinformation bit, i₀, at parity bit addresses specified in a first row ofa given one of Tables 1-8, for information bits i_(m), m=1, 2, . . . ,359, accumulating at parity bit addresses defined according to {x+m modM×q} mod(n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)), wherein x denotes the address of the paritybit accumulator corresponding to the first bit, i₀, in the group, and qis a code rate dependent constant, wherein the accumulating steps arerepeated for successive groups of 360 new information bits forsuccessive rows of the Tables 1-8, after the accumulating steps havebeen repeated for all of the information bits of the block of k_(ldpc)information bits, obtaining final parity bits, starting with i=1,p_(i)=p_(i)⊕p_(i−1), i=1, 2, . . . , n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)−1, wherein thecontent of p_(i), i=0, 1, . . . , n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)−1 is equal to theparity bit p_(i), the Tables 1-8 being: TABLE 1 Address of Parity BitAccumulators (Rate ⅔) 0 10491 16043 506 12826 8065 8226 2767 240 186739279 10579 20928 1 17819 8313 6433 6224 5120 5824 12812 17187 9940 1344713825 18483 2 17957 6024 8681 18628 12794 5915 14576 10970 12064 204374455 7151 3 19777 6183 9972 14536 8182 17749 11341 5556 4379 17434 1547718532 4 4651 19689 1608 659 16707 14335 6143 3058 14618 17894 20684 53065 9778 2552 12096 12369 15198 16890 4851 3109 1700 18725 1997 15882 6486 6111 13743 11537 5591 7433 15227 14145 1483 3887 17431 12430 7 2064714311 11734 4180 8110 5525 12141 15761 18661 18441 10569 8192 8 379114759 15264 19918 10132 9062 10010 12786 10675 9682 19246 5454 9 195259485 7777 19999 8378 9209 3163 20232 6690 16518 716 7353 10 4588 670920202 10905 915 4317 11073 13576 16433 368 3508 21171 11 14072 403319959 12608 631 19494 14160 8249 10223 21504 12395 4322 12 13800 1416113 2948 9647 14 14693 16027 15 20506 11082 16 1143 9020 17 13501 4014 181548 2190 19 12216 21556 20 2095 19897 21 4189 7958 22 15940 10048 23515 12614 24 8501 8450 25 17595 16784 26 5913 8495 27 16394 10423 287409 6981 29 6678 15939 30 20344 12987 31 2510 14588 32 17918 6655 336703 19451 34 496 4217 35 7290 5766 36 10521 8925 37 20379 11905 38 40905838 39 19082 17040 40 20233 12352 41 19365 19546 42 6249 19030 43 1103719193 44 19760 11772 45 19644 7428 46 16076 3521 47 11779 21062 48 130629682 49 8934 5217 50 11087 3319 51 18892 4356 52 7894 3898 53 5963 436054 7346 11726 55 5182 5609 56 2412 17295 57 9845 20494 58 6687 1864 5920564 5216 0 18226 17207 1 9380 8266 2 7073 3065 3 18252 13437 4 916115642 5 10714 10153 6 11585 9078 7 5359 9418 8 9024 9515 9 1206 16354 1014994 1102 11 9375 20796 12 15964 6027 13 14789 6452 14 8002 18591 1514742 14089 16 253 3045 17 1274 19286 18 14777 2044 19 13920 9900 20 4527374 21 18206 9921 22 6131 5414 23 10077 9726 24 12045 5479 25 4322 799026 15616 5550 27 15561 10661 28 20718 7387 29 2518 18804 30 8984 2600 316516 17909 32 11148 98 33 20559 3704 34 7510 1569 35 16000 11692 36 914710303 37 16650 191 38 15577 18685 39 17167 20917 40 4256 3391 41 2009217219 42 9218 5056 43 18429 8472 44 12093 20753 45 16345 12748 46 1602311095 47 5048 17595 48 18995 4817 49 16483 3536 50 1439 16148 51 36613039 52 19010 18121 53 8968 11793 54 13427 18003 55 5303 3083 56 53116668 57 4771 6722 58 5695 7960 59 3589 14630

TABLE 2 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅚) 0 4362 416 8909 41563216 3112 2560 2912 6405 8593 4969 6723 1 2479 1786 8978 3011 4339 93136397 2957 7288 5484 6031 10217 2 10175 9009 9889 3091 4985 7267 40928874 5671 2777 2189 8716 3 9052 4795 3924 3370 10058 1128 9996 101659360 4297 434 5138 4 2379 7834 4835 2327 9843 804 329 8353 7167 30701528 7311 5 3435 7871 348 3693 1876 6585 10340 7144 5870 2084 4052 27806 3917 3111 3476 1304 10331 5939 5199 1611 1991 699 8316 9960 7 68833237 1717 10752 7891 9764 4745 3888 10009 4176 4614 1567 8 10587 21951689 2968 5420 2580 2883 6496 111 6023 1024 4449 9 3786 8593 2074 33215057 1450 3840 5444 6572 3094 9892 1512 10 8548 1848 10372 4585 73136536 6379 1766 9462 2456 5606 9975 11 8204 10593 7935 3636 3882 394 59688561 2395 7289 9267 9978 12 7795 74 1633 9542 6867 7352 6417 7568 10623725 2531 9115 13 7151 2482 4260 5003 10105 7419 9203 6691 8798 2092 82633755 14 3600 570 4527 200 9718 6771 1995 8902 5446 768 1103 6520 15 63047621 16 6498 9209 17 7293 6786 18 5950 1708 19 8521 1793 20 6174 7854 219773 1190 22 9517 10268 23 2181 9349 24 1949 5560 25 1556 555 26 86003827 27 5072 1057 28 7928 3542 29 3226 3762 0 7045 2420 1 9645 2641 22774 2452 3 5331 2031 4 9400 7503 5 1850 2338 6 10456 9774 7 1692 9276 810037 4038 9 3964 338 10 2640 5087 11 858 3473 12 5582 5683 13 9523 91614 4107 1559 15 4506 3491 16 8191 4182 17 10192 6157 18 5668 3305 193449 1540 20 4766 2697 21 4069 6675 22 1117 1016 23 5619 3085 24 84838400 25 8255 394 26 6338 5042 27 6174 5119 28 7203 1989 29 1781 5174 01464 3559 1 3376 4214 2 7238 67 3 10595 8831 4 1221 6513 5 5300 4652 61429 9749 7 7878 5131 8 4435 10284 9 6331 5507 10 6662 4941 11 961410238 12 8400 8025 13 9156 5630 14 7067 8878 15 9027 3415 16 1690 386617 2854 8469 18 6206 630 19 363 5453 20 4125 7008 21 1612 6702 22 90699226 23 5767 4060 24 3743 9237 25 7018 5572 26 8892 4536 27 853 6064 288069 5893 29 2051 2885 0 10691 3153 1 3602 4055 2 328 1717 3 2219 9299 41939 7898 5 617 206 6 8544 1374 7 10676 3240 8 6672 9489 9 3170 7457 107868 5731 11 6121 10732 12 4843 9132 13 580 9591 14 6267 9290 15 30092268 16 195 2419 17 8016 1557 18 1516 9195 19 8062 9064 20 2095 8968 21753 7326 22 6291 3833 23 2614 7844 24 2303 646 25 2075 611 26 4687 36227 8684 9940 28 4830 2065 29 7038 1363 0 1769 7837 1 3801 1689 2 100702359 3 3667 9918 4 1914 6920 5 4244 5669 6 10245 7821 7 7648 3944 8 33105488 9 6346 9666 10 7088 6122 11 1291 7827 12 10592 8945 13 3609 7120 149168 9112 15 6203 8052 16 3330 2895 17 4264 10563 18 10556 6496 19 88077645 20 1999 4530 21 9202 6818 22 3403 1734 23 2106 9023 24 6881 3883 253895 2171 26 4062 6424 27 3755 9536 28 4683 2131 29 7347 8027

TABLE 3 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ½) 54 9318 14392 2756126909 10219 2534 8597 55 7263 4635 2530 28130 3033 23830 3651 56 2473123583 26036 17299 5750 792 9169 57 5811 26154 18653 11551 15447 1368516264 58 12610 11347 28768 2792 3174 29371 12997 59 16789 16018 214496165 21202 15850 3186 60 31016 21449 17618 6213 12166 8334 18212 6122836 14213 11327 5896 718 11727 9308 62 2091 24941 29966 23634 901315587 5444 63 22207 3983 16904 28534 21415 27524 25912 64 25687 450122193 14665 14798 16158 5491 65 4520 17094 23397 4264 22370 16941 2152666 10490 6182 32370 9597 30841 25954 2762 67 22120 22865 29870 1514713668 14955 19235 68 6689 18408 18346 9918 25746 5443 20645 69 2998212529 13858 4746 30370 10023 24828 70 1262 28032 29888 13063 24033 219517863 71 6594 29642 31451 14831 9509 9335 31552 72 1358 6454 16633 2035424598 624 5265 73 19529 295 18011 3080 13364 8032 15323 74 11981 15107960 21462 9129 11370 25741 75 9276 29656 4543 30699 20646 21921 2805076 15975 25634 5520 31119 13715 21949 19605 77 18688 4608 31755 3016513103 10706 29224 78 21514 23117 12245 26035 31656 25631 30699 79 967424966 31285 29908 17042 24588 31857 80 21856 27777 29919 27000 1489711409 7122 81 29773 23310 263 4877 28622 20545 22092 82 15605 5651 218643967 14419 22757 15896 83 30145 1759 10139 29223 26086 10556 5098 8418815 16575 2936 24457 26738 6030 505 85 30326 22298 27562 20131 263906247 24791 86 928 29246 21246 12400 15311 32309 18608 87 20314 602526689 16302 2296 3244 19613 88 6237 11943 22851 15642 23857 15112 2094789 26403 25168 19038 18384 8882 12719 7093 0 14567 24965 1 3908 100 210279 240 3 24102 764 4 12383 4173 5 13861 15918 6 21327 1046 7 528814579 8 28158 8069 9 16583 11098 10 16681 28363 11 13980 24725 12 3216917989 13 10907 2767 14 21557 3818 15 26676 12422 16 7676 8754 17 1490520232 18 15719 24646 19 31942 8589 20 19978 27197 21 27060 15071 22 607126649 23 10393 11176 24 9597 13370 25 7081 17677 26 1433 19513 27 269259014 28 19202 8900 29 18152 30647 30 20803 1737 31 11804 25221 32 3168317783 33 29694 9345 34 12280 26611 35 6526 26122 36 26165 11241 37 766626962 38 16290 8480 39 11774 10120 40 30051 30426 41 1335 15424 42 686517742 43 31779 12489 44 32120 21001 45 14508 6996 46 979 25024 47 455421896 48 7989 21777 49 4972 20661 50 6612 2730 51 12742 4418 52 29194595 53 19267 20113

TABLE 4 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ¾) 0 6385 7901 1461113389 11200 3252 5243 2504 2722 821 7374 1 11359 2698 357 13824 127727244 6752 15310 852 2001 11417 2 7862 7977 6321 13612 12197 14449 1513713860 1708 6399 13444 3 1560 11804 6975 13292 3646 3812 8772 7306 579514327 7866 4 7626 11407 14599 9689 1628 2113 10809 9283 1230 15241 48705 1610 5699 15876 9446 12515 1400 6303 5411 14181 13925 7358 6 4059 88363405 7853 7992 15336 5970 10368 10278 9675 4651 7 4441 3963 9153 210912683 7459 12030 12221 629 15212 406 8 6007 8411 5771 3497 543 14202 8759186 6235 13908 3563 9 3232 6625 4795 546 9781 2071 7312 3399 7250 493212652 10 8820 10088 11090 7069 6585 13134 10158 7183 488 7455 9238 111903 10818 119 215 7558 11046 10615 11545 14784 7961 15619 12 3655 87364917 15874 5129 2134 15944 14768 7150 2692 1469 13 8316 3820 505 89236757 806 7957 4216 15589 13244 2622 14 14463 4852 15733 3041 11193 1286013673 8152 6551 15108 8758 15 3149 11981 16 13416 6906 17 13098 13352 182009 14460 19 7207 4314 20 3312 3945 21 4418 6248 22 2669 13975 23 75719023 24 14172 2967 25 7271 7138 26 6135 13670 27 7490 14559 28 8657 246629 8599 12834 30 3470 3152 31 13917 4365 32 6024 13730 33 10973 14182 342464 13167 35 5281 15049 36 1103 1849 37 2058 1069 38 9654 6095 39 143117667 40 15617 8146 41 4588 11218 42 13660 6243 43 8578 7874 44 117412686 0 1022 1264 1 12604 9965 2 8217 2707 3 3156 11793 4 354 1514 5 697814058 6 7922 16079 7 15087 12138 8 5053 6470 9 12687 14932 10 15458 176311 8121 1721 12 12431 549 13 4129 7091 14 1426 8415 15 9783 7604 16 629511329 17 1409 12061 18 8065 9087 19 2918 8438 20 1293 14115 21 392213851 22 3851 4000 23 5865 1768 24 2655 14957 25 5565 6332 26 4303 1263127 11653 12236 28 16025 7632 29 4655 14128 30 9584 13123 31 13987 959732 15409 12110 33 8754 15490 34 7416 15325 35 2909 15549 36 2995 8257 379406 4791 38 11111 4854 39 2812 8521 40 8476 14717 41 7820 15360 42 11797939 43 2357 8678 44 7703 6216 0 3477 7067 1 3931 13845 2 7675 12899 31754 8187 4 7785 1400 5 9213 5891 6 2494 7703 7 2576 7902 8 4821 15682 910426 11935 10 1810 904 11 11332 9264 12 11312 3570 13 14916 2650 147679 7842 15 6089 13084 16 3938 2751 17 8509 4648 18 12204 8917 19 574912443 20 12613 4431 21 1344 4014 22 8488 13850 23 1730 14896 24 149427126 25 14983 8863 26 6578 8564 27 4947 396 28 297 12805 29 13878 669230 11857 11186 31 14395 11493 32 16145 12251 33 13462 7428 34 1452613119 35 2535 11243 36 6465 12690 37 6872 9334 38 15371 14023 39 810110187 40 11963 4848 41 15125 6119 42 8051 14465 43 11139 5167 44 288314521

TABLE 5 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅘) 0 149 11212 55756360 12559 8108 8505 408 10026 12828 1 5237 490 10677 4998 3869 37343092 3509 7703 10305 2 8742 5553 2820 7085 12116 10485 564 7795 29722157 3 2699 4304 8350 712 2841 3250 4731 10105 517 7516 4 12067 135111992 12191 11267 5161 537 6166 4246 2363 5 6828 7107 2127 3724 574311040 10756 4073 1011 3422 6 11259 1216 9526 1466 10816 940 3744 281511506 11573 7 4549 11507 1118 1274 11751 5207 7854 12803 4047 6484 88430 4115 9440 413 4455 2262 7915 12402 8579 7052 9 3885 9126 5665 45052343 253 4707 3742 4166 1556 10 1704 8936 6775 8639 8179 7954 8234 78508883 8713 11 11716 4344 9087 11264 2274 8832 9147 11930 6054 5455 127323 3970 10329 2170 8262 3854 2087 12899 9497 11700 13 4418 1467 24905841 817 11453 533 11217 11962 5251 14 1541 4525 7976 3457 9536 77253788 2982 6307 5997 15 11484 2739 4023 12107 6516 551 2572 6628 81509852 16 6070 1761 4627 6534 7913 3730 11866 1813 12306 8249 17 124415489 8748 7837 7660 2102 11341 2936 6712 11977 18 10155 4210 19 101010483 20 8900 10250 21 10243 12278 22 7070 4397 23 12271 3887 24 119806836 25 9514 4356 26 7137 10281 27 11881 2526 28 1969 11477 29 304410921 30 2236 8724 31 9104 6340 32 7342 8582 33 11675 10405 34 646712775 35 3186 12198 0 9621 11445 1 7486 5611 2 4319 4879 3 2196 344 47527 6650 5 10693 2440 6 6755 2706 7 5144 5998 8 11043 8033 9 4846 443510 4157 9228 11 12270 6562 12 11954 7592 13 7420 2592 14 8810 9636 15689 5430 16 920 1304 17 1253 11934 18 9559 6016 19 312 7589 20 4439 419721 4002 9555 22 12232 7779 23 1494 8782 24 10749 3969 25 4368 3479 266316 5342 27 2455 3493 28 12157 7405 29 6598 11495 30 11805 4455 31 96252090 32 4731 2321 33 3578 2608 34 8504 1849 35 4027 1151 0 5647 4935 14219 1870 2 10968 8054 3 6970 5447 4 3217 5638 5 8972 669 6 5618 12472 71457 1280 8 8868 3883 9 8866 1224 10 8371 5972 11 266 4405 12 3706 324413 6039 5844 14 7200 3283 15 1502 11282 16 12318 2202 17 4523 965 189587 7011 19 2552 2051 20 12045 10306 21 11070 5104 22 6627 6906 23 98892121 24 829 9701 25 2201 1819 26 6689 12925 27 2139 8757 28 12004 594829 8704 3191 30 8171 10933 31 6297 7116 32 616 7146 33 5142 9761 3410377 8138 35 7616 5811 0 7285 9863 1 7764 10867 2 12343 9019 3 44148331 4 3464 642 5 6960 2039 6 786 3021 7 710 2086 8 7423 5601 9 81204885 10 12385 11990 11 9739 10034 12 424 10162 13 1347 7597 14 1450 11215 7965 8478 16 8945 7397 17 6590 8316 18 6838 9011 19 6174 9410 20 255113 21 6197 5835 22 12902 3844 23 4377 3505 24 5478 8672 25 4453 2132 269724 1380 27 12131 11526 28 12323 9511 29 8231 1752 30 497 9022 31 92883080 32 2481 7515 33 2696 268 34 4023 12341 35 7108 5553

TABLE 6 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅗) 22422 10282 1162619997 11161 2922 3122 99 5625 17064 8270 179 25087 16218 17015 828 2004125656 4186 11629 22599 17305 22515 6463 11049 22853 25706 14388 550019245 8732 2177 13555 11346 17265 3069 16581 22225 12563 19717 2357711555 25496 6853 25403 5218 15925 21766 16529 14487 7643 10715 1744211119 5679 14155 24213 21000 1116 15620 5340 8636 16693 1434 5635 65169482 20189 1066 15013 25361 14243 18506 22236 20912 8952 5421 15691 612621595 500 6904 13059 6802 8433 4694 5524 14216 3685 19721 25420 993723813 9047 25651 16826 21500 24814 6344 17382 7064 13929 4004 1655212818 8720 5286 2206 22517 2429 19065 2921 21611 1873 7507 5661 2300623128 20543 19777 1770 4636 20900 14931 9247 12340 11008 12966 4471 273116445 791 6635 14556 18865 22421 22124 12697 9803 25485 7744 18254 113139004 19982 23963 18912 7206 12500 4382 20067 6177 21007 1195 23547 24837756 11158 14646 20534 3647 17728 11676 11843 12937 4402 8261 22944 930624009 10012 11081 3746 24325 8060 19826 842 8836 2898 5019 7575 745525244 4736 14400 22981 5543 8006 24203 13053 1120 5128 3482 9270 1305915825 7453 23747 3656 24585 16542 17507 22462 14670 15627 15290 419822748 5842 13395 23918 16985 14929 3726 25350 24157 24896 16365 1642313461 16615 8107 24741 3604 25904 8716 9604 20365 3729 17245 18448 986220831 25326 20517 24618 13282 5099 14183 8804 16455 17646 15376 1819425528 1777 6066 21855 14372 12517 4488 17490 1400 8135 23375 20879 84764084 12936 25536 22309 16582 6402 24360 25119 23586 128 4761 10443 225368607 9752 25446 15053 1856 4040 377 21160 13474 5451 17170 5938 1025611972 24210 17833 22047 16108 13075 9648 24546 13150 23867 7309 197982988 16858 4825 23950 15125 20526 3553 11525 23366 2452 17626 1926520172 18060 24593 13255 1552 18839 21132 20119 15214 14705 7096 101745663 18651 19700 12524 14033 4127 2971 17499 16287 22368 21463 794318880 5567 8047 23363 6797 10651 24471 14325 4081 7258 4949 7044 1078797 22910 20474 4318 21374 13231 22985 5056 3821 23718 14178 9978 1903023594 8895 25358 6199 22056 7749 13310 3999 23697 16445 22636 5225 2243724153 9442 7978 12177 2893 20778 3175 8645 11863 24623 10311 25767 170573691 20473 11294 9914 22815 2574 8439 3699 5431 24840 21908 16088 182448208 5755 19059 8541 24924 6454 11234 10492 16406 10831 11436 9649 1626411275 24953 2347 12667 19190 7257 7174 24819 2938 2522 11749 3627 596913862 1538 23176 6353 2855 17720 2472 7428 573 15036 0 18539 18661 110502 3002 2 9368 10761 3 12299 7828 4 15048 13362 5 18444 24640 6 2077519175 7 18970 10971 8 5329 19982 9 11296 18655 10 15046 20659 11 730022140 12 22029 14477 13 11129 742 14 13254 13813 15 19234 13273 16 607921122 17 22782 5828 18 19775 4247 19 1660 19413 20 4403 3649 21 1337125851 22 22770 21784 23 10757 14131 24 16071 21617 25 6393 3725 26 59719968 27 5743 8084 28 6770 9548 29 4285 17542 30 13568 22599 31 17864617 32 23238 11648 33 19627 2030 34 13601 13458 35 13740 17328 36 2501213944 37 22513 6687 38 4934 12587 39 21197 5133 40 22705 6938 41 753424633 42 24400 12797 43 21911 25712 44 12039 1140 45 24306 1021 46 1401220747 47 11265 15219 48 4670 15531 49 9417 14359 50 2415 6504 51 2496424690 52 14443 8816 53 6926 1291 54 6209 20806 55 13915 4079 56 2441013196 57 13505 6117 58 9869 8220 59 1570 6044 60 25780 17387 61 2067124913 62 24558 20591 63 12402 3702 64 8314 1357 65 20071 14616 66 170143688 67 19837 946 68 15195 12136 69 7758 22808 70 3564 2925 71 3434 7769

TABLE 7 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 8/9) 0 6235 2848 3222 15800 3492 5348 2 2757 927 90 3 6961 4516 4739 4 1172 3237 6264 5 19272425 3683 6 3714 6309 2495 7 3070 6342 7154 8 2428 613 3761 9 2906 2645927 10 1716 1950 4273 11 4613 6179 3491 12 4865 3286 6005 13 1343 59233529 14 4589 4035 2132 15 1579 3920 6737 16 1644 1191 5998 17 1482 23814620 18 6791 6014 6596 19 2738 5918 3786 0 5156 6166 1 1504 4356 2 1301904 3 6027 3187 4 6718 759 5 6240 2870 6 2343 1311 7 1039 5465 8 66172513 9 1588 5222 10 6561 535 11 4765 2054 12 5966 6892 13 1969 3869 143571 2420 15 4632 981 16 3215 4163 17 973 3117 18 3802 6198 19 3794 39480 3196 6126 1 573 1909 2 850 4034 3 5622 1601 4 6005 524 5 5251 5783 6172 2032 7 1875 2475 8 497 1291 9 2566 3430 10 1249 740 11 2944 1948 126528 2899 13 2243 3616 14 867 3733 15 1374 4702 16 4698 2285 17 47603917 18 1859 4058 19 6141 3527 0 2148 5066 1 1306 145 2 2319 871 3 34631061 4 5554 6647 5 5837 339 6 5821 4932 7 6356 4756 8 3930 418 9 2113094 10 1007 4928 11 3584 1235 12 6982 2869 13 1612 1013 14 953 4964 154555 4410 16 4925 4842 17 5778 600 18 6509 2417 19 1260 4903 0 3369 30311 3557 3224 2 3028 583 3 3258 440 4 6226 6655 5 4895 1094 6 1481 6847 74433 1932 8 2107 1649 9 2119 2065 10 4003 6388 11 6720 3622 12 3694 452113 1164 7050 14 1965 3613 15 4331 66 16 2970 1796 17 4652 3218 18 17624777 19 5736 1399 0 970 2572 1 2062 6599 2 4597 4870 3 1228 6913 4 41591037 5 2916 2362 6 395 1226 7 6911 4548 8 4618 2241 9 4120 4280 10 5825474 11 2154 5558 12 3793 5471 13 5707 1595 14 1403 325 15 6601 5183 166369 4569 17 4846 896 18 7092 6184 19 6764 7127 0 6358 1951 1 3117 69602 2710 7062 3 1133 3604 4 3694 657 5 1355 110 6 3329 6736 7 2505 3407 82462 4806 9 4216 214 10 5348 5619 11 6627 6243 12 2644 5073 13 4212 508814 3463 3889 15 5306 478 16 4320 6121 17 3961 1125 18 5699 1195 19 6511792 0 3934 2778 1 3238 6587 2 1111 6596 3 1457 6226 4 1446 3885 5 39074043 6 6839 2873 7 1733 5615 8 5202 4269 9 3024 4722 10 5445 6372 11 3701828 12 4695 1600 13 680 2074 14 1801 6690 15 2669 1377 16 2463 1681 175972 5171 18 5728 4284 19 1696 1459

TABLE 8 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 9/10) 0 5611 2563 29001 5220 3143 4813 2 2481 834 81 3 6265 4064 4265 4 1055 2914 5638 5 17342182 3315 6 3342 5678 2246 7 2185 552 3385 8 2615 236 5334 9 1546 17553846 10 4154 5561 3142 11 4382 2957 5400 12 1209 5329 3179 13 1421 35286063 14 1480 1072 5398 15 3843 1777 4369 16 1334 2145 4163 17 2368 5055260 0 6118 5405 1 2994 4370 2 3405 1669 3 4640 5550 4 1354 3921 5 1171713 6 5425 2866 7 6047 683 8 5616 2582 9 2108 1179 10 933 4921 11 59532261 12 1430 4699 13 5905 480 14 4289 1846 15 5374 6208 16 1775 3476 173216 2178 0 4165 884 1 2896 3744 2 874 2801 3 3423 5579 4 3404 3552 52876 5515 6 516 1719 7 765 3631 8 5059 1441 9 5629 598 10 5405 473 114724 5210 12 155 1832 13 1689 2229 14 449 1164 15 2308 3088 16 1122 66917 2268 5758 0 5878 2609 1 782 3359 2 1231 4231 3 4225 2052 4 4286 35175 5531 3184 6 1935 4560 7 1174 131 8 3115 956 9 3129 1088 10 5238 444011 5722 4280 12 3540 375 13 191 2782 14 906 4432 15 3225 1111 16 62962583 17 1457 903 0 855 4475 1 4097 3970 2 4433 4361 3 5198 541 4 11464426 5 3202 2902 6 2724 525 7 1083 4124 8 2326 6003 9 5605 5990 10 43761579 11 4407 984 12 1332 6163 13 5359 3975 14 1907 1854 15 3601 5748 166056 3266 17 3322 4085 0 1768 3244 1 2149 144 2 1589 4291 3 5154 1252 41855 5939 5 4820 2706 6 1475 3360 7 4266 693 8 4156 2018 9 2103 752 103710 3853 11 5123 931 12 6146 3323 13 1939 5002 14 5140 1437 15 1263 29316 5949 4665 17 4548 6380 0 3171 4690 1 5204 2114 2 6384 5565 3 57221757 4 2805 6264 5 1202 2616 6 1018 3244 7 4018 5289 8 2257 3067 9 24833073 10 1196 5329 11 649 3918 12 3791 4581 13 5028 3803 14 3119 3506 154779 431 16 3888 5510 17 4387 4084 0 5836 1692 1 5126 1078 2 5721 6165 33540 2499 4 2225 6348 5 1044 1484 6 6323 4042 7 1313 5603 8 1303 3496 93516 3639 10 5161 2293 11 4682 3845 12 3045 643 13 2818 2616 14 3267 64915 6236 593 16 646 2948 17 4213 1442 0 5779 1596 1 2403 1237 2 2217 15143 5609 716 4 5155 3858 5 1517 1312 6 2554 3158 7 5280 2643 8 4990 1353 95648 1170 10 1152 4366 11 3561 5368 12 3581 1411 13 5647 4661 14 15425401 15 5078 2687 16 316 1755 17 3392
 1991.


9. An apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the logic is furtherconfigured to generate an outer Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) t errorcorrecting code using a generator polynomial obtained by multiplying thefirst t polynomials of the following table, g₁(x) 1 + x² + x³ + x⁵ + x¹⁶g₂(x) 1 + x + x⁴ + x⁵ + x⁶ + x⁸ + x¹⁶ g₃(x) 1 + x² + x³ + x⁴ + x⁵ + x⁷ +x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹¹ + x¹⁶ g₄(x) 1 + x² + x⁴ + x⁶ + x⁹ + x¹¹ + x¹² +x¹⁴ + x¹⁶ g₅(x) 1 + x + x² + x³ + x⁵ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹¹ + x¹² + x¹⁶g₆(x) 1 + x² + x⁴ + x⁵ + x⁷ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹² + x¹³ + x¹⁴ + x¹⁵ +x¹⁶ g₇(x) 1 + x² + x⁵ + x⁶ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹¹ + x¹³ + x¹⁵ + x¹⁶ g₈(x)1 + x + x² + x⁵ + x⁶ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹² + x¹³ + x¹⁴ + x¹⁶ g₉(x) 1 + x⁵ +x⁷ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹¹ + x¹⁶ g₁₀(x) 1 + x + x² + x⁵ + x⁷ + x⁸ + x¹⁰ + x¹² +x¹³ + x¹⁴ + x¹⁶ g₁₁(x) 1 + x² + x³ + x⁵ + x⁹ + x¹¹ + x¹² + x¹³ + x¹⁶g₁₂(x) 1 + x + x⁵ + x⁶ + x⁷ + x⁹ + x¹¹ + x¹² + x¹⁶.


10. An apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the code dependentconstant q is 60, 30, 90, 45, 36, 72, 20, and 18 for code rates ⅔, ⅚, ½,¾, ⅘, ⅗, 8/9, and 9/10, respectively.
 11. An apparatus according toclaim 8, wherein m=(m_(k) _(bch) ₋₁, m_(k) _(bch) ₋₂, . . . , m₁, m₀)information bits are encoded onto a codeword c=(m_(k) _(bch) ₋₁, m_(k)_(bch) ₋₂, . . . , m₁, m₀, d_(n) _(bch) _(-k) _(bch) ₋₁, d_(k) _(bch)_(-k) _(bch) ₋₂, . . . , d₁, d₀), the logic is further configured tomultiply a message polynomial m(x)=m_(k) _(bch) ₋₁x^(k) ^(bch) ⁻¹+m_(k)_(bch) ₋₂x^(k) ^(bch) ⁻²+ . . . +m₁x+m₀ with x^(n) ^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch) ,and to divide x^(n) ^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch) m(x) divided by g(x), whereind(x)=d_(n) _(bch) _(-k) _(bch) ₋₁x^(n) ^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch) ⁻¹+ . . .+d₁x+d₀ is a remainder, wherein the codeword polynomial is c(x)=x^(n)^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch) m(x)+d(x).
 12. An apparatus according to claim 8,wherein n_(ldpc) is 64,800.
 13. An apparatus according to claim 8,wherein the information bits represent a Motion Pictures Expert Group(MPEG) packet.
 14. A transmitter comprising: a first encoder configuredto generate an inner Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code using paritybit addresses specified by any of Tables 1-8 by, initializingn_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc) parity bits (p₀, p₁, . . . , p_(n) _(ldpc) _(-k)_(ldpc) ₋₁) for a block of k_(ldpc) information bits, (i₀, i₁, . . . ,i_(k) _(ldpc) ₋₁) accumulating a first information bit, i₀, at paritybit addresses specified in a first row of a given one of Tables 1-8, forinformation bits i_(m), m=1, 2, . . . , 359, accumulating at parity bitaddresses defined according to {x+m mod M×q} mod(n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)),wherein x denotes the address of the parity bit accumulatorcorresponding to the first bit, i₀ in the group, and q is a code ratedependent constant, wherein the accumulating steps are repeated forsuccessive groups of 360 new information bits for successive rows of thegiven one of Tables 1-8, after the accumulating steps have been repeatedfor all of the information bits exhausted of the block of k_(ldpc)information bits, obtaining final parity bits, starting with i=1,p_(i)=p_(i)⊕p_(i−1), i=1, 2, . . . , n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)−1, wherein thecontent of p_(i), i=0, 1, . . . , n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)−1 is equal to theparity bit p_(i), the Tables 1-8 being: TABLE 1 Address of Parity BitAccumulators (Rate ⅔) 0 10491 16043 506 12826 8065 8226 2767 240 186739279 10579 20928 1 17819 8313 6433 6224 5120 5824 12812 17187 9940 1344713825 18483 2 17957 6024 8681 18628 12794 5915 14576 10970 12064 204374455 7151 3 19777 6183 9972 14536 8182 17749 11341 5556 4379 17434 1547718532 4 4651 19689 1608 659 16707 14335 6143 3058 14618 17894 20684 53065 9778 2552 12096 12369 15198 16890 4851 3109 1700 18725 1997 15882 6486 6111 13743 11537 5591 7433 15227 14145 1483 3887 17431 12430 7 2064714311 11734 4180 8110 5525 12141 15761 18661 18441 10569 8192 8 379114759 15264 19918 10132 9062 10010 12786 10675 9682 19246 5454 9 195259485 7777 19999 8378 9209 3163 20232 6690 16518 716 7353 10 4588 670920202 10905 915 4317 11073 13576 16433 368 3508 21171 11 14072 403319959 12608 631 19494 14160 8249 10223 21504 12395 4322 12 13800 1416113 2948 9647 14 14693 16027 15 20506 11082 16 1143 9020 17 13501 4014 181548 2190 19 12216 21556 20 2095 19897 21 4189 7958 22 15940 10048 23515 12614 24 8501 8450 25 17595 16784 26 5913 8495 27 16394 10423 287409 6981 29 6678 15939 30 20344 12987 31 2510 14588 32 17918 6655 336703 19451 34 496 4217 35 7290 5766 36 10521 8925 37 20379 11905 38 40905838 39 19082 17040 40 20233 12352 41 19365 19546 42 6249 19030 43 1103719193 44 19760 11772 45 19644 7428 46 16076 3521 47 11779 21062 48 130629682 49 8934 5217 50 11087 3319 51 18892 4356 52 7894 3898 53 5963 436054 7346 11726 55 5182 5609 56 2412 17295 57 9845 20494 58 6687 1864 5920564 5216 0 18226 17207 1 9380 8266 2 7073 3065 3 18252 13437 4 916115642 5 10714 10153 6 11585 9078 7 5359 9418 8 9024 9515 9 1206 16354 1014994 1102 11 9375 20796 12 15964 6027 13 14789 6452 14 8002 18591 1514742 14089 16 253 3045 17 1274 19286 18 14777 2044 19 13920 9900 20 4527374 21 18206 9921 22 6131 5414 23 10077 9726 24 12045 5479 25 4322 799026 15616 5550 27 15561 10661 28 20718 7387 29 2518 18804 30 8984 2600 316516 17909 32 11148 98 33 20559 3704 34 7510 1569 35 16000 11692 36 914710303 37 16650 191 38 15577 18685 39 17167 20917 40 4256 3391 41 2009217219 42 9218 5056 43 18429 8472 44 12093 20753 45 16345 12748 46 1602311095 47 5048 17595 48 18995 4817 49 16483 3536 50 1439 16148 51 36613039 52 19010 18121 53 8968 11793 54 13427 18003 55 5303 3083 56 53116668 57 4771 6722 58 5695 7960 59 3589 14630

TABLE 2 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅚) 0 4362 416 8909 41563216 3112 2560 2912 6405 8593 4969 6723 1 2479 1786 8978 3011 4339 93136397 2957 7288 5484 6031 10217 2 10175 9009 9889 3091 4985 7267 40928874 5671 2777 2189 8716 3 9052 4795 3924 3370 10058 1128 9996 101659360 4297 434 5138 4 2379 7834 4835 2327 9843 804 329 8353 7167 30701528 7311 5 3435 7871 348 3693 1876 6585 10340 7144 5870 2084 4052 27806 3917 3111 3476 1304 10331 5939 5199 1611 1991 699 8316 9960 7 68833237 1717 10752 7891 9764 4745 3888 10009 4176 4614 1567 8 10587 21951689 2968 5420 2580 2883 6496 111 6023 1024 4449 9 3786 8593 2074 33215057 1450 3840 5444 6572 3094 9892 1512 10 8548 1848 10372 4585 73136536 6379 1766 9462 2456 5606 9975 11 8204 10593 7935 3636 3882 394 59688561 2395 7289 9267 9978 12 7795 74 1633 9542 6867 7352 6417 7568 10623725 2531 9115 13 7151 2482 4260 5003 10105 7419 9203 6691 8798 2092 82633755 14 3600 570 4527 200 9718 6771 1995 8902 5446 768 1103 6520 15 63047621 16 6498 9209 17 7293 6786 18 5950 1708 19 8521 1793 20 6174 7854 219773 1190 22 9517 10268 23 2181 9349 24 1949 5560 25 1556 555 26 86003827 27 5072 1057 28 7928 3542 29 3226 3762 0 7045 2420 1 9645 2641 22774 2452 3 5331 2031 4 9400 7503 5 1850 2338 6 10456 9774 7 1692 9276 810037 4038 9 3964 338 10 2640 5087 11 858 3473 12 5582 5683 13 9523 91614 4107 1559 15 4506 3491 16 8191 4182 17 10192 6157 18 5668 3305 193449 1540 20 4766 2697 21 4069 6675 22 1117 1016 23 5619 3085 24 84838400 25 8255 394 26 6338 5042 27 6174 5119 28 7203 1989 29 1781 5174 01464 3559 1 3376 4214 2 7238 67 3 10595 8831 4 1221 6513 5 5300 4652 61429 9749 7 7878 5131 8 4435 10284 9 6331 5507 10 6662 4941 11 961410238 12 8400 8025 13 9156 5630 14 7067 8878 15 9027 3415 16 1690 386617 2854 8469 18 6206 630 19 363 5453 20 4125 7008 21 1612 6702 22 90699226 23 5767 4060 24 3743 9237 25 7018 5572 26 8892 4536 27 853 6064 288069 5893 29 2051 2885 0 10691 3153 1 3602 4055 2 328 1717 3 2219 9299 41939 7898 5 617 206 6 8544 1374 7 10676 3240 8 6672 9489 9 3170 7457 107868 5731 11 6121 10732 12 4843 9132 13 580 9591 14 6267 9290 15 30092268 16 195 2419 17 8016 1557 18 1516 9195 19 8062 9064 20 2095 8968 21753 7326 22 6291 3833 23 2614 7844 24 2303 646 25 2075 611 26 4687 36227 8684 9940 28 4830 2065 29 7038 1363 0 1769 7837 1 3801 1689 2 100702359 3 3667 9918 4 1914 6920 5 4244 5669 6 10245 7821 7 7648 3944 8 33105488 9 6346 9666 10 7088 6122 11 1291 7827 12 10592 8945 13 3609 7120 149168 9112 15 6203 8052 16 3330 2895 17 4264 10563 18 10556 6496 19 88077645 20 1999 4530 21 9202 6818 22 3403 1734 23 2106 9023 24 6881 3883 253895 2171 26 4062 6424 27 3755 9536 28 4683 2131 29 7347 8027

TABLE 3 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ½) 54 9318 14392 2756126909 10219 2534 8597 55 7263 4635 2530 28130 3033 23830 3651 56 2473123583 26036 17299 5750 792 9169 57 5811 26154 18653 11551 15447 1368516264 58 12610 11347 28768 2792 3174 29371 12997 59 16789 16018 214496165 21202 15850 3186 60 31016 21449 17618 6213 12166 8334 18212 6122836 14213 11327 5896 718 11727 9308 62 2091 24941 29966 23634 901315587 5444 63 22207 3983 16904 28534 21415 27524 25912 64 25687 450122193 14665 14798 16158 5491 65 4520 17094 23397 4264 22370 16941 2152666 10490 6182 32370 9597 30841 25954 2762 67 22120 22865 29870 1514713668 14955 19235 68 6689 18408 18346 9918 25746 5443 20645 69 2998212529 13858 4746 30370 10023 24828 70 1262 28032 29888 13063 24033 219517863 71 6594 29642 31451 14831 9509 9335 31552 72 1358 6454 16633 2035424598 624 5265 73 19529 295 18011 3080 13364 8032 15323 74 11981 15107960 21462 9129 11370 25741 75 9276 29656 4543 30699 20646 21921 2805076 15975 25634 5520 31119 13715 21949 19605 77 18688 4608 31755 3016513103 10706 29224 78 21514 23117 12245 26035 31656 25631 30699 79 967424966 31285 29908 17042 24588 31857 80 21856 27777 29919 27000 1489711409 7122 81 29773 23310 263 4877 28622 20545 22092 82 15605 5651 218643967 14419 22757 15896 83 30145 1759 10139 29223 26086 10556 5098 8418815 16575 2936 24457 26738 6030 505 85 30326 22298 27562 20131 263906247 24791 86 928 29246 21246 12400 15311 32309 18608 87 20314 602526689 16302 2296 3244 19613 88 6237 11943 22851 15642 23857 15112 2094789 26403 25168 19038 18384 8882 12719 7093 0 14567 24965 1 3908 100 210279 240 3 24102 764 4 12383 4173 5 13861 15918 6 21327 1046 7 528814579 8 28158 8069 9 16583 11098 10 16681 28363 11 13980 24725 12 3216917989 13 10907 2767 14 21557 3818 15 26676 12422 16 7676 8754 17 1490520232 18 15719 24646 19 31942 8589 20 19978 27197 21 27060 15071 22 607126649 23 10393 11176 24 9597 13370 25 7081 17677 26 1433 19513 27 269259014 28 19202 8900 29 18152 30647 30 20803 1737 31 11804 25221 32 3168317783 33 29694 9345 34 12280 26611 35 6526 26122 36 26165 11241 37 766626962 38 16290 8480 39 11774 10120 40 30051 30426 41 1335 15424 42 686517742 43 31779 12489 44 32120 21001 45 14508 6996 46 979 25024 47 455421896 48 7989 21777 49 4972 20661 50 6612 2730 51 12742 4418 52 29194595 53 19267 20113

TABLE 4 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ¾) 0 6385 7901 1461113389 11200 3252 5243 2504 2722 821 7374 1 11359 2698 357 13824 127727244 6752 15310 852 2001 11417 2 7862 7977 6321 13612 12197 14449 1513713860 1708 6399 13444 3 1560 11804 6975 13292 3646 3812 8772 7306 579514327 7866 4 7626 11407 14599 9689 1628 2113 10809 9283 1230 15241 48705 1610 5699 15876 9446 12515 1400 6303 5411 14181 13925 7358 6 4059 88363405 7853 7992 15336 5970 10368 10278 9675 4651 7 4441 3963 9153 210912683 7459 12030 12221 629 15212 406 8 6007 8411 5771 3497 543 14202 8759186 6235 13908 3563 9 3232 6625 4795 546 9781 2071 7312 3399 7250 493212652 10 8820 10088 11090 7069 6585 13134 10158 7183 488 7455 9238 111903 10818 119 215 7558 11046 10615 11545 14784 7961 15619 12 3655 87364917 15874 5129 2134 15944 14768 7150 2692 1469 13 8316 3820 505 89236757 806 7957 4216 15589 13244 2622 14 14463 4852 15733 3041 11193 1286013673 8152 6551 15108 8758 15 3149 11981 16 13416 6906 17 13098 13352 182009 14460 19 7207 4314 20 3312 3945 21 4418 6248 22 2669 13975 23 75719023 24 14172 2967 25 7271 7138 26 6135 13670 27 7490 14559 28 8657 246629 8599 12834 30 3470 3152 31 13917 4365 32 6024 13730 33 10973 14182 342464 13167 35 5281 15049 36 1103 1849 37 2058 1069 38 9654 6095 39 143117667 40 15617 8146 41 4588 11218 42 13660 6243 43 8578 7874 44 117412686 0 1022 1264 1 12604 9965 2 8217 2707 3 3156 11793 4 354 1514 5 697814058 6 7922 16079 7 15087 12138 8 5053 6470 9 12687 14932 10 15458 176311 8121 1721 12 12431 549 13 4129 7091 14 1426 8415 15 9783 7604 16 629511329 17 1409 12061 18 8065 9087 19 2918 8438 20 1293 14115 21 392213851 22 3851 4000 23 5865 1768 24 2655 14957 25 5565 6332 26 4303 1263127 11653 12236 28 16025 7632 29 4655 14128 30 9584 13123 31 13987 959732 15409 12110 33 8754 15490 34 7416 15325 35 2909 15549 36 2995 8257 379406 4791 38 11111 4854 39 2812 8521 40 8476 14717 41 7820 15360 42 11797939 43 2357 8678 44 7703 6216 0 3477 7067 1 3931 13845 2 7675 12899 31754 8187 4 7785 1400 5 9213 5891 6 2494 7703 7 2576 7902 8 4821 15682 910426 11935 10 1810 904 11 11332 9264 12 11312 3570 13 14916 2650 147679 7842 15 6089 13084 16 3938 2751 17 8509 4648 18 12204 8917 19 574912443 20 12613 4431 21 1344 4014 22 8488 13850 23 1730 14896 24 149427126 25 14983 8863 26 6578 8564 27 4947 396 28 297 12805 29 13878 669230 11857 11186 31 14395 11493 32 16145 12251 33 13462 7428 34 1452613119 35 2535 11243 36 6465 12690 37 6872 9334 38 15371 14023 39 810110187 40 11963 4848 41 15125 6119 42 8051 14465 43 11139 5167 44 288314521

TABLE 5 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅘) 0 149 11212 55756360 12559 8108 8505 408 10026 12828 1 5237 490 10677 4998 3869 37343092 3509 7703 10305 2 8742 5553 2820 7085 12116 10485 564 7795 29722157 3 2699 4304 8350 712 2841 3250 4731 10105 517 7516 4 12067 135111992 12191 11267 5161 537 6166 4246 2363 5 6828 7107 2127 3724 574311040 10756 4073 1011 3422 6 11259 1216 9526 1466 10816 940 3744 281511506 11573 7 4549 11507 1118 1274 11751 5207 7854 12803 4047 6484 88430 4115 9440 413 4455 2262 7915 12402 8579 7052 9 3885 9126 5665 45052343 253 4707 3742 4166 1556 10 1704 8936 6775 8639 8179 7954 8234 78508883 8713 11 11716 4344 9087 11264 2274 8832 9147 11930 6054 5455 127323 3970 10329 2170 8262 3854 2087 12899 9497 11700 13 4418 1467 24905841 817 11453 533 11217 11962 5251 14 1541 4525 7976 3457 9536 77253788 2982 6307 5997 15 11484 2739 4023 12107 6516 551 2572 6628 81509852 16 6070 1761 4627 6534 7913 3730 11866 1813 12306 8249 17 124415489 8748 7837 7660 2102 11341 2936 6712 11977 18 10155 4210 19 101010483 20 8900 10250 21 10243 12278 22 7070 4397 23 12271 3887 24 119806836 25 9514 4356 26 7137 10281 27 11881 2526 28 1969 11477 29 304410921 30 2236 8724 31 9104 6340 32 7342 8582 33 11675 10405 34 646712775 35 3186 12198 0 9621 11445 1 7486 5611 2 4319 4879 3 2196 344 47527 6650 5 10693 2440 6 6755 2706 7 5144 5998 8 11043 8033 9 4846 443510 4157 9228 11 12270 6562 12 11954 7592 13 7420 2592 14 8810 9636 15689 5430 16 920 1304 17 1253 11934 18 9559 6016 19 312 7589 20 4439 419721 4002 9555 22 12232 7779 23 1494 8782 24 10749 3969 25 4368 3479 266316 5342 27 2455 3493 28 12157 7405 29 6598 11495 30 11805 4455 31 96252090 32 4731 2321 33 3578 2608 34 8504 1849 35 4027 1151 0 5647 4935 14219 1870 2 10968 8054 3 6970 5447 4 3217 5638 5 8972 669 6 5618 12472 71457 1280 8 8868 3883 9 8866 1224 10 8371 5972 11 266 4405 12 3706 324413 6039 5844 14 7200 3283 15 1502 11282 16 12318 2202 17 4523 965 189587 7011 19 2552 2051 20 12045 10306 21 11070 5104 22 6627 6906 23 98892121 24 829 9701 25 2201 1819 26 6689 12925 27 2139 8757 28 12004 594829 8704 3191 30 8171 10933 31 6297 7116 32 616 7146 33 5142 9761 3410377 8138 35 7616 5811 0 7285 9863 1 7764 10867 2 12343 9019 3 44148331 4 3464 642 5 6960 2039 6 786 3021 7 710 2086 8 7423 5601 9 81204885 10 12385 11990 11 9739 10034 12 424 10162 13 1347 7597 14 1450 11215 7965 8478 16 8945 7397 17 6590 8316 18 6838 9011 19 6174 9410 20 255113 21 6197 5835 22 12902 3844 23 4377 3505 24 5478 8672 25 4453 2132 269724 1380 27 12131 11526 28 12323 9511 29 8231 1752 30 497 9022 31 92883080 32 2481 7515 33 2696 268 34 4023 12341 35 7108 5553

TABLE 6 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅗) 22422 10282 1162619997 11161 2922 3122 99 5625 17064 8270 179 25087 16218 17015 828 2004125656 4186 11629 22599 17305 22515 6463 11049 22853 25706 14388 550019245 8732 2177 13555 11346 17265 3069 16581 22225 12563 19717 2357711555 25496 6853 25403 5218 15925 21766 16529 14487 7643 10715 1744211119 5679 14155 24213 21000 1116 15620 5340 8636 16693 1434 5635 65169482 20189 1066 15013 25361 14243 18506 22236 20912 8952 5421 15691 612621595 500 6904 13059 6802 8433 4694 5524 14216 3685 19721 25420 993723813 9047 25651 16826 21500 24814 6344 17382 7064 13929 4004 1655212818 8720 5286 2206 22517 2429 19065 2921 21611 1873 7507 5661 2300623128 20543 19777 1770 4636 20900 14931 9247 12340 11008 12966 4471 273116445 791 6635 14556 18865 22421 22124 12697 9803 25485 7744 18254 113139004 19982 23963 18912 7206 12500 4382 20067 6177 21007 1195 23547 24837756 11158 14646 20534 3647 17728 11676 11843 12937 4402 8261 22944 930624009 10012 11081 3746 24325 8060 19826 842 8836 2898 5019 7575 745525244 4736 14400 22981 5543 8006 24203 13053 1120 5128 3482 9270 1305915825 7453 23747 3656 24585 16542 17507 22462 14670 15627 15290 419822748 5842 13395 23918 16985 14929 3726 25350 24157 24896 16365 1642313461 16615 8107 24741 3604 25904 8716 9604 20365 3729 17245 18448 986220831 25326 20517 24618 13282 5099 14183 8804 16455 17646 15376 1819425528 1777 6066 21855 14372 12517 4488 17490 1400 8135 23375 20879 84764084 12936 25536 22309 16582 6402 24360 25119 23586 128 4761 10443 225368607 9752 25446 15053 1856 4040 377 21160 13474 5451 17170 5938 1025611972 24210 17833 22047 16108 13075 9648 24546 13150 23867 7309 197982988 16858 4825 23950 15125 20526 3553 11525 23366 2452 17626 1926520172 18060 24593 13255 1552 18839 21132 20119 15214 14705 7096 101745663 18651 19700 12524 14033 4127 2971 17499 16287 22368 21463 794318880 5567 8047 23363 6797 10651 24471 14325 4081 7258 4949 7044 1078797 22910 20474 4318 21374 13231 22985 5056 3821 23718 14178 9978 1903023594 8895 25358 6199 22056 7749 13310 3999 23697 16445 22636 5225 2243724153 9442 7978 12177 2893 20778 3175 8645 11863 24623 10311 25767 170573691 20473 11294 9914 22815 2574 8439 3699 5431 24840 21908 16088 182448208 5755 19059 8541 24924 6454 11234 10492 16406 10831 11436 9649 1626411275 24953 2347 12667 19190 7257 7174 24819 2938 2522 11749 3627 596913862 1538 23176 6353 2855 17720 2472 7428 573 15036 0 18539 18661 110502 3002 2 9368 10761 3 12299 7828 4 15048 13362 5 18444 24640 6 2077519175 7 18970 10971 8 5329 19982 9 11296 18655 10 15046 20659 11 730022140 12 22029 14477 13 11129 742 14 13254 13813 15 19234 13273 16 607921122 17 22782 5828 18 19775 4247 19 1660 19413 20 4403 3649 21 1337125851 22 22770 21784 23 10757 14131 24 16071 21617 25 6393 3725 26 59719968 27 5743 8084 28 6770 9548 29 4285 17542 30 13568 22599 31 17864617 32 23238 11648 33 19627 2030 34 13601 13458 35 13740 17328 36 2501213944 37 22513 6687 38 4934 12587 39 21197 5133 40 22705 6938 41 753424633 42 24400 12797 43 21911 25712 44 12039 1140 45 24306 1021 46 1401220747 47 11265 15219 48 4670 15531 49 9417 14359 50 2415 6504 51 2496424690 52 14443 8816 53 6926 1291 54 6209 20806 55 13915 4079 56 2441013196 57 13505 6117 58 9869 8220 59 1570 6044 60 25780 17387 61 2067124913 62 24558 20591 63 12402 3702 64 8314 1357 65 20071 14616 66 170143688 67 19837 946 68 15195 12136 69 7758 22808 70 3564 2925 71 3434 7769

TABLE 7 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 8/9) 0 6235 2848 3222 15800 3492 5348 2 2757 927 90 3 6961 4516 4739 4 1172 3237 6264 5 19272425 3683 6 3714 6309 2495 7 3070 6342 7154 8 2428 613 3761 9 2906 2645927 10 1716 1950 4273 11 4613 6179 3491 12 4865 3286 6005 13 1343 59233529 14 4589 4035 2132 15 1579 3920 6737 16 1644 1191 5998 17 1482 23814620 18 6791 6014 6596 19 2738 5918 3786 0 5156 6166 1 1504 4356 2 1301904 3 6027 3187 4 6718 759 5 6240 2870 6 2343 1311 7 1039 5465 8 66172513 9 1588 5222 10 6561 535 11 4765 2054 12 5966 6892 13 1969 3869 143571 2420 15 4632 981 16 3215 4163 17 973 3117 18 3802 6198 19 3794 39480 3196 6126 1 573 1909 2 850 4034 3 5622 1601 4 6005 524 5 5251 5783 6172 2032 7 1875 2475 8 497 1291 9 2566 3430 10 1249 740 11 2944 1948 126528 2899 13 2243 3616 14 867 3733 15 1374 4702 16 4698 2285 17 47603917 18 1859 4058 19 6141 3527 0 2148 5066 1 1306 145 2 2319 871 3 34631061 4 5554 6647 5 5837 339 6 5821 4932 7 6356 4756 8 3930 418 9 2113094 10 1007 4928 11 3584 1235 12 6982 2869 13 1612 1013 14 953 4964 154555 4410 16 4925 4842 17 5778 600 18 6509 2417 19 1260 4903 0 3369 30311 3557 3224 2 3028 583 3 3258 440 4 6226 6655 5 4895 1094 6 1481 6847 74433 1932 8 2107 1649 9 2119 2065 10 4003 6388 11 6720 3622 12 3694 452113 1164 7050 14 1965 3613 15 4331 66 16 2970 1796 17 4652 3218 18 17624777 19 5736 1399 0 970 2572 1 2062 6599 2 4597 4870 3 1228 6913 4 41591037 5 2916 2362 6 395 1226 7 6911 4548 8 4618 2241 9 4120 4280 10 5825474 11 2154 5558 12 3793 5471 13 5707 1595 14 1403 325 15 6601 5183 166369 4569 17 4846 896 18 7092 6184 19 6764 7127 0 6358 1951 1 3117 69602 2710 7062 3 1133 3604 4 3694 657 5 1355 110 6 3329 6736 7 2505 3407 82462 4806 9 4216 214 10 5348 5619 11 6627 6243 12 2644 5073 13 4212 508814 3463 3889 15 5306 478 16 4320 6121 17 3961 1125 18 5699 1195 19 6511792 0 3934 2778 1 3238 6587 2 1111 6596 3 1457 6226 4 1446 3885 5 39074043 6 6839 2873 7 1733 5615 8 5202 4269 9 3024 4722 10 5445 6372 11 3701828 12 4695 1600 13 680 2074 14 1801 6690 15 2669 1377 16 2463 1681 175972 5171 18 5728 4284 19 1696 1459

TABLE 8 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 9/10) 0 5611 2563 29001 5220 3143 4813 2 2481 834 81 3 6265 4064 4265 4 1055 2914 5638 5 17342182 3315 6 3342 5678 2246 7 2185 552 3385 8 2615 236 5334 9 1546 17553846 10 4154 5561 3142 11 4382 2957 5400 12 1209 5329 3179 13 1421 35286063 14 1480 1072 5398 15 3843 1777 4369 16 1334 2145 4163 17 2368 5055260 0 6118 5405 1 2994 4370 2 3405 1669 3 4640 5550 4 1354 3921 5 1171713 6 5425 2866 7 6047 683 8 5616 2582 9 2108 1179 10 933 4921 11 59532261 12 1430 4699 13 5905 480 14 4289 1846 15 5374 6208 16 1775 3476 173216 2178 0 4165 884 1 2896 3744 2 874 2801 3 3423 5579 4 3404 3552 52876 5515 6 516 1719 7 765 3631 8 5059 1441 9 5629 598 10 5405 473 114724 5210 12 155 1832 13 1689 2229 14 449 1164 15 2308 3088 16 1122 66917 2268 5758 0 5878 2609 1 782 3359 2 1231 4231 3 4225 2052 4 4286 35175 5531 3184 6 1935 4560 7 1174 131 8 3115 956 9 3129 1088 10 5238 444011 5722 4280 12 3540 375 13 191 2782 14 906 4432 15 3225 1111 16 62962583 17 1457 903 0 855 4475 1 4097 3970 2 4433 4361 3 5198 541 4 11464426 5 3202 2902 6 2724 525 7 1083 4124 8 2326 6003 9 5605 5990 10 43761579 11 4407 984 12 1332 6163 13 5359 3975 14 1907 1854 15 3601 5748 166056 3266 17 3322 4085 0 1768 3244 1 2149 144 2 1589 4291 3 5154 1252 41855 5939 5 4820 2706 6 1475 3360 7 4266 693 8 4156 2018 9 2103 752 103710 3853 11 5123 931 12 6146 3323 13 1939 5002 14 5140 1437 15 1263 29316 5949 4665 17 4548 6380 0 3171 4690 1 5204 2114 2 6384 5565 3 57221757 4 2805 6264 5 1202 2616 6 1018 3244 7 4018 5289 8 2257 3067 9 24833073 10 1196 5329 11 649 3918 12 3791 4581 13 5028 3803 14 3119 3506 154779 431 16 3888 5510 17 4387 4084 0 5836 1692 1 5126 1078 2 5721 6165 33540 2499 4 2225 6348 5 1044 1484 6 6323 4042 7 1313 5603 8 1303 3496 93516 3639 10 5161 2293 11 4682 3845 12 3045 643 13 2818 2616 14 3267 64915 6236 593 16 646 2948 17 4213 1442 0 5779 1596 1 2403 1237 2 2217 15143 5609 716 4 5155 3858 5 1517 1312 6 2554 3158 7 5280 2643 8 4990 1353 95648 1170 10 1152 4366 11 3561 5368 12 3581 1411 13 5647 4661 14 15425401 15 5078 2687 16 316 1755 17 3392
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15. A transmitter according to claim 14, further comprising: a secondencoder configured to generate an outer Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH)t error correcting code using a generator polynomial obtained bymultiplying the first t polynomials of the following table, g₁(x) 1 +x² + x³ + x⁵ + x¹⁶ g₂(x) 1 + x + x⁴ + x⁵ + x⁶ + x⁸ + x¹⁶ g₃(x) 1 + x² +x³ + x⁴ + x⁵ + x⁷ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹¹ + x¹⁶ g₄(x) 1 + x² + x⁴ + x⁶ +x⁹ + x¹¹ + x¹² + x¹⁴ + x¹⁶ g₅(x) 1 + x + x² + x³ + x⁵ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ +x¹¹ + x¹² + x¹⁶ g₆(x) 1 + x² + x⁴ + x⁵ + x⁷ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹² +x¹³ + x¹⁴ + x¹⁵ + x¹⁶ g₇(x) 1 + x² + x⁵ + x⁶ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹¹ +x¹³ + x¹⁵ + x¹⁶ g₈(x) 1 + x + x² + x⁵ + x⁶ + x⁸ + x⁹ + x¹² + x¹³ + x¹⁴ +x¹⁶ g₉(x) 1 + x⁵ + x⁷ + x⁹ + x¹⁰ + x¹¹ + x¹⁶ g₁₀(x) 1 + x + x² + x⁵ +x⁷ + x⁸ + x¹⁰ + x¹² + x¹³ + x¹⁴ + x¹⁶ g₁₁(x) 1 + x² + x³ + x⁵ + x⁹ +x¹¹ + x¹² + x¹³ + x¹⁶ g₁₂(x) 1 + x + x⁵ + x⁶ + x⁷ + x⁹ + x¹¹ + x¹² +x¹⁶.


16. A transmitter according to claim 14, wherein the code dependentconstant q is 60, 30, 90, 45, 36, 72, 20, and 18 for code rates ⅔, ⅚, ½,¾, ⅘, ⅗, 8/9, and 9/10, respectively.
 17. A transmitter according toclaim 14, wherein m=(m_(k) _(bch) ₋₁, m_(k) _(bch) ₋₂, . . . , m₁, m₀)information bits are encoded onto a codeword c=(m_(k) _(bch) ₋₁, m_(k)_(bch) ₋₂, . . . , m₁, m₀, d_(n) _(bch) _(-k) _(bch) ₋₁, d_(n) _(bch)_(-k) _(bch) ₋₂, . . . , d₁, d₀), the logic is further configured tomultiply a message polynomial m(x)=m_(k) _(bch) ₋₁x^(k) ^(bch) ⁻¹+m_(k)_(bch) ₋₂x^(k) ^(bch) ⁻²+ . . . +m₁x+m₀ with x^(n) ^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch) ,and to divide x^(n) ^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch) m(x) divided by g(x), whereind(x)=d_(n) _(bch) _(-k) _(bch) ₋₁x^(n) ^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch) ⁻¹+ . . .+d₁x+d₀ is a remainder, wherein the codeword polynomial is c(x)=x^(n)^(bch) ^(-k) ^(bch) m(x)+d(x).
 18. A transmitter according to claim 14,wherein n_(ldpc) is 64,800.
 19. A transmitter according to claim 14,wherein the information bits represent a Motion Pictures Expert Group(MPEG) packet.
 20. A receiver comprising, circuitry configured toreceive an encoded signal representing an inner Low Density Parity Check(LDPC) code that is generated using parity bit addresses specified byany of Tables 1-8 by, initializing n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc) parity bits (p₀,p₁, . . . , p_(n) _(ldpc) _(-k) _(ldpc) ₋₁) for a block of k_(ldpc)information bits, (i₀, i₁, . . . , i_(k) _(ldpc) ₋₁), accumulating afirst information bit, i₀, at parity bit addresses specified in a firstrow of a given one of Tables 1-8, for information bits i_(m), m=1, 2, .. . , 359, accumulating at parity bit addresses defined according to{x+m mod M×q} mod(n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)), wherein x denotes the address ofthe parity bit accumulator corresponding to the first bit, i₀, in thegroup, and q is a code rate dependent constant, wherein the accumulatingsteps are repeated for successive groups of 360 new information bits forsuccessive rows of the given one of Tables 1-8, after the accumulatingsteps have been repeated for all of the information bits of the block ofk_(ldpc) information bits, obtaining final parity bits, starting withi=1, p_(i)=p_(i)⊕p_(i−1), i=1, 2, . . . , n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)−1, whereinthe content of p_(i), i=0, 1, . . . , n_(ldpc)−k_(ldpc)−1 is equal tothe parity bit p_(i), the Tables 1-8 being: TABLE 1 Address of ParityBit Accumulators (Rate ⅔) 0 10491 16043 506 12826 8065 8226 2767 24018673 9279 10579 20928 1 17819 8313 6433 6224 5120 5824 12812 17187 994013447 13825 18483 2 17957 6024 8681 18628 12794 5915 14576 10970 1206420437 4455 7151 3 19777 6183 9972 14536 8182 17749 11341 5556 4379 1743415477 18532 4 4651 19689 1608 659 16707 14335 6143 3058 14618 1789420684 5306 5 9778 2552 12096 12369 15198 16890 4851 3109 1700 18725 199715882 6 486 6111 13743 11537 5591 7433 15227 14145 1483 3887 17431 124307 20647 14311 11734 4180 8110 5525 12141 15761 18661 18441 10569 8192 83791 14759 15264 19918 10132 9062 10010 12786 10675 9682 19246 5454 919525 9485 7777 19999 8378 9209 3163 20232 6690 16518 716 7353 10 45886709 20202 10905 915 4317 11073 13576 16433 368 3508 21171 11 14072 403319959 12608 631 19494 14160 8249 10223 21504 12395 4322 12 13800 1416113 2948 9647 14 14693 16027 15 20506 11082 16 1143 9020 17 13501 4014 181548 2190 19 12216 21556 20 2095 19897 21 4189 7958 22 15940 10048 23515 12614 24 8501 8450 25 17595 16784 26 5913 8495 27 16394 10423 287409 6981 29 6678 15939 30 20344 12987 31 2510 14588 32 17918 6655 336703 19451 34 496 4217 35 7290 5766 36 10521 8925 37 20379 11905 38 40905838 39 19082 17040 40 20233 12352 41 19365 19546 42 6249 19030 43 1103719193 44 19760 11772 45 19644 7428 46 16076 3521 47 11779 21062 48 130629682 49 8934 5217 50 11087 3319 51 18892 4356 52 7894 3898 53 5963 436054 7346 11726 55 5182 5609 56 2412 17295 57 9845 20494 58 6687 1864 5920564 5216 0 18226 17207 1 9380 8266 2 7073 3065 3 18252 13437 4 916115642 5 10714 10153 6 11585 9078 7 5359 9418 8 9024 9515 9 1206 16354 1014994 1102 11 9375 20796 12 15964 6027 13 14789 6452 14 8002 18591 1514742 14089 16 253 3045 17 1274 19286 18 14777 2044 19 13920 9900 20 4527374 21 18206 9921 22 6131 5414 23 10077 9726 24 12045 5479 25 4322 799026 15616 5550 27 15561 10661 28 20718 7387 29 2518 18804 30 8984 2600 316516 17909 32 11148 98 33 20559 3704 34 7510 1569 35 16000 11692 36 914710303 37 16650 191 38 15577 18685 39 17167 20917 40 4256 3391 41 2009217219 42 9218 5056 43 18429 8472 44 12093 20753 45 16345 12748 46 1602311095 47 5048 17595 48 18995 4817 49 16483 3536 50 1439 16148 51 36613039 52 19010 18121 53 8968 11793 54 13427 18003 55 5303 3083 56 53116668 57 4771 6722 58 5695 7960 59 3589 14630

TABLE 2 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅚) 0 4362 416 8909 41563216 3112 2560 2912 6405 8593 4969 6723 1 2479 1786 8978 3011 4339 93136397 2957 7288 5484 6031 10217 2 10175 9009 9889 3091 4985 7267 40928874 5671 2777 2189 8716 3 9052 4795 3924 3370 10058 1128 9996 101659360 4297 434 5138 4 2379 7834 4835 2327 9843 804 329 8353 7167 30701528 7311 5 3435 7871 348 3693 1876 6585 10340 7144 5870 2084 4052 27806 3917 3111 3476 1304 10331 5939 5199 1611 1991 699 8316 9960 7 68833237 1717 10752 7891 9764 4745 3888 10009 4176 4614 1567 8 10587 21951689 2968 5420 2580 2883 6496 111 6023 1024 4449 9 3786 8593 2074 33215057 1450 3840 5444 6572 3094 9892 1512 10 8548 1848 10372 4585 73136536 6379 1766 9462 2456 5606 9975 11 8204 10593 7935 3636 3882 394 59688561 2395 7289 9267 9978 12 7795 74 1633 9542 6867 7352 6417 7568 10623725 2531 9115 13 7151 2482 4260 5003 10105 7419 9203 6691 8798 2092 82633755 14 3600 570 4527 200 9718 6771 1995 8902 5446 768 1103 6520 15 63047621 16 6498 9209 17 7293 6786 18 5950 1708 19 8521 1793 20 6174 7854 219773 1190 22 9517 10268 23 2181 9349 24 1949 5560 25 1556 555 26 86003827 27 5072 1057 28 7928 3542 29 3226 3762 0 7045 2420 1 9645 2641 22774 2452 3 5331 2031 4 9400 7503 5 1850 2338 6 10456 9774 7 1692 9276 810037 4038 9 3964 338 10 2640 5087 11 858 3473 12 5582 5683 13 9523 91614 4107 1559 15 4506 3491 16 8191 4182 17 10192 6157 18 5668 3305 193449 1540 20 4766 2697 21 4069 6675 22 1117 1016 23 5619 3085 24 84838400 25 8255 394 26 6338 5042 27 6174 5119 28 7203 1989 29 1781 5174 01464 3559 1 3376 4214 2 7238 67 3 10595 8831 4 1221 6513 5 5300 4652 61429 9749 7 7878 5131 8 4435 10284 9 6331 5507 10 6662 4941 11 961410238 12 8400 8025 13 9156 5630 14 7067 8878 15 9027 3415 16 1690 386617 2854 8469 18 6206 630 19 363 5453 20 4125 7008 21 1612 6702 22 90699226 23 5767 4060 24 3743 9237 25 7018 5572 26 8892 4536 27 853 6064 288069 5893 29 2051 2885 0 10691 3153 1 3602 4055 2 328 1717 3 2219 9299 41939 7898 5 617 206 6 8544 1374 7 10676 3240 8 6672 9489 9 3170 7457 107868 5731 11 6121 10732 12 4843 9132 13 580 9591 14 6267 9290 15 30092268 16 195 2419 17 8016 1557 18 1516 9195 19 8062 9064 20 2095 8968 21753 7326 22 6291 3833 23 2614 7844 24 2303 646 25 2075 611 26 4687 36227 8684 9940 28 4830 2065 29 7038 1363 0 1769 7837 1 3801 1689 2 100702359 3 3667 9918 4 1914 6920 5 4244 5669 6 10245 7821 7 7648 3944 8 33105488 9 6346 9666 10 7088 6122 11 1291 7827 12 10592 8945 13 3609 7120 149168 9112 15 6203 8052 16 3330 2895 17 4264 10563 18 10556 6496 19 88077645 20 1999 4530 21 9202 6818 22 3403 1734 23 2106 9023 24 6881 3883 253895 2171 26 4062 6424 27 3755 9536 28 4683 2131 29 7347 8027

TABLE 3 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ½) 54 9318 14392 2756126909 10219 2534 8597 55 7263 4635 2530 28130 3033 23830 3651 56 2473123583 26036 17299 5750 792 9169 57 5811 26154 18653 11551 15447 1368516264 58 12610 11347 28768 2792 3174 29371 12997 59 16789 16018 214496165 21202 15850 3186 60 31016 21449 17618 6213 12166 8334 18212 6122836 14213 11327 5896 718 11727 9308 62 2091 24941 29966 23634 901315587 5444 63 22207 3983 16904 28534 21415 27524 25912 64 25687 450122193 14665 14798 16158 5491 65 4520 17094 23397 4264 22370 16941 2152666 10490 6182 32370 9597 30841 25954 2762 67 22120 22865 29870 1514713668 14955 19235 68 6689 18408 18346 9918 25746 5443 20645 69 2998212529 13858 4746 30370 10023 24828 70 1262 28032 29888 13063 24033 219517863 71 6594 29642 31451 14831 9509 9335 31552 72 1358 6454 16633 2035424598 624 5265 73 19529 295 18011 3080 13364 8032 15323 74 11981 15107960 21462 9129 11370 25741 75 9276 29656 4543 30699 20646 21921 2805076 15975 25634 5520 31119 13715 21949 19605 77 18688 4608 31755 3016513103 10706 29224 78 21514 23117 12245 26035 31656 25631 30699 79 967424966 31285 29908 17042 24588 31857 80 21856 27777 29919 27000 1489711409 7122 81 29773 23310 263 4877 28622 20545 22092 82 15605 5651 218643967 14419 22757 15896 83 30145 1759 10139 29223 26086 10556 5098 8418815 16575 2936 24457 26738 6030 505 85 30326 22298 27562 20131 263906247 24791 86 928 29246 21246 12400 15311 32309 18608 87 20314 602526689 16302 2296 3244 19613 88 6237 11943 22851 15642 23857 15112 2094789 26403 25168 19038 18384 8882 12719 7093 0 14567 24965 1 3908 100 210279 240 3 24102 764 4 12383 4173 5 13861 15918 6 21327 1046 7 528814579 8 28158 8069 9 16583 11098 10 16681 28363 11 13980 24725 12 3216917989 13 10907 2767 14 21557 3818 15 26676 12422 16 7676 8754 17 1490520232 18 15719 24646 19 31942 8589 20 19978 27197 21 27060 15071 22 607126649 23 10393 11176 24 9597 13370 25 7081 17677 26 1433 19513 27 269259014 28 19202 8900 29 18152 30647 30 20803 1737 31 11804 25221 32 3168317783 33 29694 9345 34 12280 26611 35 6526 26122 36 26165 11241 37 766626962 38 16290 8480 39 11774 10120 40 30051 30426 41 1335 15424 42 686517742 43 31779 12489 44 32120 21001 45 14508 6996 46 979 25024 47 455421896 48 7989 21777 49 4972 20661 50 6612 2730 51 12742 4418 52 29194595 53 19267 20113

TABLE 4 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ¾) 0 6385 7901 1461113389 11200 3252 5243 2504 2722 821 7374 1 11359 2698 357 13824 127727244 6752 15310 852 2001 11417 2 7862 7977 6321 13612 12197 14449 1513713860 1708 6399 13444 3 1560 11804 6975 13292 3646 3812 8772 7306 579514327 7866 4 7626 11407 14599 9689 1628 2113 10809 9283 1230 15241 48705 1610 5699 15876 9446 12515 1400 6303 5411 14181 13925 7358 6 4059 88363405 7853 7992 15336 5970 10368 10278 9675 4651 7 4441 3963 9153 210912683 7459 12030 12221 629 15212 406 8 6007 8411 5771 3497 543 14202 8759186 6235 13908 3563 9 3232 6625 4795 546 9781 2071 7312 3399 7250 493212652 10 8820 10088 11090 7069 6585 13134 10158 7183 488 7455 9238 111903 10818 119 215 7558 11046 10615 11545 14784 7961 15619 12 3655 87364917 15874 5129 2134 15944 14768 7150 2692 1469 13 8316 3820 505 89236757 806 7957 4216 15589 13244 2622 14 14463 4852 15733 3041 11193 1286013673 8152 6551 15108 8758 15 3149 11981 16 13416 6906 17 13098 13352 182009 14460 19 7207 4314 20 3312 3945 21 4418 6248 22 2669 13975 23 75719023 24 14172 2967 25 7271 7138 26 6135 13670 27 7490 14559 28 8657 246629 8599 12834 30 3470 3152 31 13917 4365 32 6024 13730 33 10973 14182 342464 13167 35 5281 15049 36 1103 1849 37 2058 1069 38 9654 6095 39 143117667 40 15617 8146 41 4588 11218 42 13660 6243 43 8578 7874 44 117412686 0 1022 1264 1 12604 9965 2 8217 2707 3 3156 11793 4 354 1514 5 697814058 6 7922 16079 7 15087 12138 8 5053 6470 9 12687 14932 10 15458 176311 8121 1721 12 12431 549 13 4129 7091 14 1426 8415 15 9783 7604 16 629511329 17 1409 12061 18 8065 9087 19 2918 8438 20 1293 14115 21 392213851 22 3851 4000 23 5865 1768 24 2655 14957 25 5565 6332 26 4303 1263127 11653 12236 28 16025 7632 29 4655 14128 30 9584 13123 31 13987 959732 15409 12110 33 8754 15490 34 7416 15325 35 2909 15549 36 2995 8257 379406 4791 38 11111 4854 39 2812 8521 40 8476 14717 41 7820 15360 42 11797939 43 2357 8678 44 7703 6216 0 3477 7067 1 3931 13845 2 7675 12899 31754 8187 4 7785 1400 5 9213 5891 6 2494 7703 7 2576 7902 8 4821 15682 910426 11935 10 1810 904 11 11332 9264 12 11312 3570 13 14916 2650 147679 7842 15 6089 13084 16 3938 2751 17 8509 4648 18 12204 8917 19 574912443 20 12613 4431 21 1344 4014 22 8488 13850 23 1730 14896 24 149427126 25 14983 8863 26 6578 8564 27 4947 396 28 297 12805 29 13878 669230 11857 11186 31 14395 11493 32 16145 12251 33 13462 7428 34 1452613119 35 2535 11243 36 6465 12690 37 6872 9334 38 15371 14023 39 810110187 40 11963 4848 41 15125 6119 42 8051 14465 43 11139 5167 44 288314521

TABLE 5 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅘) 0 149 11212 55756360 12559 8108 8505 408 10026 12828 1 5237 490 10677 4998 3869 37343092 3509 7703 10305 2 8742 5553 2820 7085 12116 10485 564 7795 29722157 3 2699 4304 8350 712 2841 3250 4731 10105 517 7516 4 12067 135111992 12191 11267 5161 537 6166 4246 2363 5 6828 7107 2127 3724 574311040 10756 4073 1011 3422 6 11259 1216 9526 1466 10816 940 3744 281511506 11573 7 4549 11507 1118 1274 11751 5207 7854 12803 4047 6484 88430 4115 9440 413 4455 2262 7915 12402 8579 7052 9 3885 9126 5665 45052343 253 4707 3742 4166 1556 10 1704 8936 6775 8639 8179 7954 8234 78508883 8713 11 11716 4344 9087 11264 2274 8832 9147 11930 6054 5455 127323 3970 10329 2170 8262 3854 2087 12899 9497 11700 13 4418 1467 24905841 817 11453 533 11217 11962 5251 14 1541 4525 7976 3457 9536 77253788 2982 6307 5997 15 11484 2739 4023 12107 6516 551 2572 6628 81509852 16 6070 1761 4627 6534 7913 3730 11866 1813 12306 8249 17 124415489 8748 7837 7660 2102 11341 2936 6712 11977 18 10155 4210 19 101010483 20 8900 10250 21 10243 12278 22 7070 4397 23 12271 3887 24 119806836 25 9514 4356 26 7137 10281 27 11881 2526 28 1969 11477 29 304410921 30 2236 8724 31 9104 6340 32 7342 8582 33 11675 10405 34 646712775 35 3186 12198 0 9621 11445 1 7486 5611 2 4319 4879 3 2196 344 47527 6650 5 10693 2440 6 6755 2706 7 5144 5998 8 11043 8033 9 4846 443510 4157 9228 11 12270 6562 12 11954 7592 13 7420 2592 14 8810 9636 15689 5430 16 920 1304 17 1253 11934 18 9559 6016 19 312 7589 20 4439 419721 4002 9555 22 12232 7779 23 1494 8782 24 10749 3969 25 4368 3479 266316 5342 27 2455 3493 28 12157 7405 29 6598 11495 30 11805 4455 31 96252090 32 4731 2321 33 3578 2608 34 8504 1849 35 4027 1151 0 5647 4935 14219 1870 2 10968 8054 3 6970 5447 4 3217 5638 5 8972 669 6 5618 12472 71457 1280 8 8868 3883 9 8866 1224 10 8371 5972 11 266 4405 12 3706 324413 6039 5844 14 7200 3283 15 1502 11282 16 12318 2202 17 4523 965 189587 7011 19 2552 2051 20 12045 10306 21 11070 5104 22 6627 6906 23 98892121 24 829 9701 25 2201 1819 26 6689 12925 27 2139 8757 28 12004 594829 8704 3191 30 8171 10933 31 6297 7116 32 616 7146 33 5142 9761 3410377 8138 35 7616 5811 0 7285 9863 1 7764 10867 2 12343 9019 3 44148331 4 3464 642 5 6960 2039 6 786 3021 7 710 2086 8 7423 5601 9 81204885 10 12385 11990 11 9739 10034 12 424 10162 13 1347 7597 14 1450 11215 7965 8478 16 8945 7397 17 6590 8316 18 6838 9011 19 6174 9410 20 255113 21 6197 5835 22 12902 3844 23 4377 3505 24 5478 8672 25 4453 2132 269724 1380 27 12131 11526 28 12323 9511 29 8231 1752 30 497 9022 31 92883080 32 2481 7515 33 2696 268 34 4023 12341 35 7108 5553

TABLE 6 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate ⅗) 22422 10282 1162619997 11161 2922 3122 99 5625 17064 8270 179 25087 16218 17015 828 2004125656 4186 11629 22599 17305 22515 6463 11049 22853 25706 14388 550019245 8732 2177 13555 11346 17265 3069 16581 22225 12563 19717 2357711555 25496 6853 25403 5218 15925 21766 16529 14487 7643 10715 1744211119 5679 14155 24213 21000 1116 15620 5340 8636 16693 1434 5635 65169482 20189 1066 15013 25361 14243 18506 22236 20912 8952 5421 15691 612621595 500 6904 13059 6802 8433 4694 5524 14216 3685 19721 25420 993723813 9047 25651 16826 21500 24814 6344 17382 7064 13929 4004 1655212818 8720 5286 2206 22517 2429 19065 2921 21611 1873 7507 5661 2300623128 20543 19777 1770 4636 20900 14931 9247 12340 11008 12966 4471 273116445 791 6635 14556 18865 22421 22124 12697 9803 25485 7744 18254 113139004 19982 23963 18912 7206 12500 4382 20067 6177 21007 1195 23547 24837756 11158 14646 20534 3647 17728 11676 11843 12937 4402 8261 22944 930624009 10012 11081 3746 24325 8060 19826 842 8836 2898 5019 7575 745525244 4736 14400 22981 5543 8006 24203 13053 1120 5128 3482 9270 1305915825 7453 23747 3656 24585 16542 17507 22462 14670 15627 15290 419822748 5842 13395 23918 16985 14929 3726 25350 24157 24896 16365 1642313461 16615 8107 24741 3604 25904 8716 9604 20365 3729 17245 18448 986220831 25326 20517 24618 13282 5099 14183 8804 16455 17646 15376 1819425528 1777 6066 21855 14372 12517 4488 17490 1400 8135 23375 20879 84764084 12936 25536 22309 16582 6402 24360 25119 23586 128 4761 10443 225368607 9752 25446 15053 1856 4040 377 21160 13474 5451 17170 5938 1025611972 24210 17833 22047 16108 13075 9648 24546 13150 23867 7309 197982988 16858 4825 23950 15125 20526 3553 11525 23366 2452 17626 1926520172 18060 24593 13255 1552 18839 21132 20119 15214 14705 7096 101745663 18651 19700 12524 14033 4127 2971 17499 16287 22368 21463 794318880 5567 8047 23363 6797 10651 24471 14325 4081 7258 4949 7044 1078797 22910 20474 4318 21374 13231 22985 5056 3821 23718 14178 9978 1903023594 8895 25358 6199 22056 7749 13310 3999 23697 16445 22636 5225 2243724153 9442 7978 12177 2893 20778 3175 8645 11863 24623 10311 25767 170573691 20473 11294 9914 22815 2574 8439 3699 5431 24840 21908 16088 182448208 5755 19059 8541 24924 6454 11234 10492 16406 10831 11436 1626411275 24953 2347 12667 19190 7257 7174 24819 2938 2522 11749 9649 36275969 13862 1538 23176 6353 2855 17720 2472 7428 573 15036 0 18539 186611 10502 3002 2 9368 10761 3 12299 7828 4 15048 13362 5 18444 24640 620775 19175 7 18970 10971 8 5329 19982 9 11296 18655 10 15046 20659 117300 22140 12 22029 14477 13 11129 742 14 13254 13813 15 19234 13273 166079 21122 17 22782 5828 18 19775 4247 19 1660 19413 20 4403 3649 2113371 25851 22 22770 21784 23 10757 14131 24 16071 21617 25 6393 3725 26597 19968 27 5743 8084 28 6770 9548 29 4285 17542 30 13568 22599 31 17864617 32 23238 11648 33 19627 2030 34 13601 13458 35 13740 17328 36 2501213944 37 22513 6687 38 4934 12587 39 21197 5133 40 22705 6938 41 753424633 42 24400 12797 43 21911 25712 44 12039 1140 45 24306 1021 46 1401220747 47 11265 15219 48 4670 15531 49 9417 14359 50 2415 6504 51 2496424690 52 14443 8816 53 6926 1291 54 6209 20806 55 13915 4079 56 2441013196 57 13505 6117 58 9869 8220 59 1570 6044 60 25780 17387 61 2067124913 62 24558 20591 63 12402 3702 64 8314 1357 65 20071 14616 66 170143688 67 19837 946 68 15195 12136 69 7758 22808 70 3564 2925 71 3434 7769

TABLE 7 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 8/9) 0 6235 2848 3222 15800 3492 5348 2 2757 927 90 3 6961 4516 4739 4 1172 3237 6264 5 19272425 3683 6 3714 6309 2495 7 3070 6342 7154 8 2428 613 3761 9 2906 2645927 10 1716 1950 4273 11 4613 6179 3491 12 4865 3286 6005 13 1343 59233529 14 4589 4035 2132 15 1579 3920 6737 16 1644 1191 5998 17 1482 23814620 18 6791 6014 6596 19 2738 5918 3786 0 5156 6166 1 1504 4356 2 1301904 3 6027 3187 4 6718 759 5 6240 2870 6 2343 1311 7 1039 5465 8 66172513 9 1588 5222 10 6561 535 11 4765 2054 12 5966 6892 13 1969 3869 143571 2420 15 4632 981 16 3215 4163 17 973 3117 18 3802 6198 19 3794 39480 3196 6126 1 573 1909 2 850 4034 3 5622 1601 4 6005 524 5 5251 5783 6172 2032 7 1875 2475 8 497 1291 9 2566 3430 10 1249 740 11 2944 1948 126528 2899 13 2243 3616 14 867 3733 15 1374 4702 16 4698 2285 17 47603917 18 1859 4058 19 6141 3527 0 2148 5066 1 1306 145 2 2319 871 3 34631061 4 5554 6647 5 5837 339 6 5821 4932 7 6356 4756 8 3930 418 9 2113094 10 1007 4928 11 3584 1235 12 6982 2869 13 1612 1013 14 953 4964 154555 4410 16 4925 4842 17 5778 600 18 6509 2417 19 1260 4903 0 3369 30311 3557 3224 2 3028 583 3 3258 440 4 6226 6655 5 4895 1094 6 1481 6847 74433 1932 8 2107 1649 9 2119 2065 10 4003 6388 11 6720 3622 12 3694 452113 1164 7050 14 1965 3613 15 4331 66 16 2970 1796 17 4652 3218 18 17624777 19 5736 1399 0 970 2572 1 2062 6599 2 4597 4870 3 1228 6913 4 41591037 5 2916 2362 6 395 1226 7 6911 4548 8 4618 2241 9 4120 4280 10 5825474 11 2154 5558 12 3793 5471 13 5707 1595 14 1403 325 15 6601 5183 166369 4569 17 4846 896 18 7092 6184 19 6764 7127 0 6358 1951 1 3117 69602 2710 7062 3 1133 3604 4 3694 657 5 1355 110 6 3329 6736 7 2505 3407 82462 4806 9 4216 214 10 5348 5619 11 6627 6243 12 2644 5073 13 4212 508814 3463 3889 15 5306 478 16 4320 6121 17 3961 1125 18 5699 1195 19 6511792 0 3934 2778 1 3238 6587 2 1111 6596 3 1457 6226 4 1446 3885 5 39074043 6 6839 2873 7 1733 5615 8 5202 4269 9 3024 4722 10 5445 6372 11 3701828 12 4695 1600 13 680 2074 14 1801 6690 15 2669 1377 16 2463 1681 175972 5171 18 5728 4284 19 1696 1459

TABLE 8 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 9/10) 0 5611 2563 29001 5220 3143 4813 2 2481 834 81 3 6265 4064 4265 4 1055 2914 5638 5 17342182 3315 6 3342 5678 2246 7 2185 552 3385 8 2615 236 5334 9 1546 17553846 10 4154 5561 3142 11 4382 2957 5400 12 1209 5329 3179 13 1421 35286063 14 1480 1072 5398 15 3843 1777 4369 16 1334 2145 4163 17 2368 5055260 0 6118 5405 1 2994 4370 2 3405 1669 3 4640 5550 4 1354 3921 5 1171713 6 5425 2866 7 6047 683 8 5616 2582 9 2108 1179 10 933 4921 11 59532261 12 1430 4699 13 5905 480 14 4289 1846 15 5374 6208 16 1775 3476 173216 2178 0 4165 884 1 2896 3744 2 874 2801 3 3423 5579 4 3404 3552 52876 5515 6 516 1719 7 765 3631 8 5059 1441 9 5629 598 10 5405 473 114724 5210 12 155 1832 13 1689 2229 14 449 1164 15 2308 3088 16 1122 66917 2268 5758 0 5878 2609 1 782 3359 2 1231 4231 3 4225 2052 4 4286 35175 5531 3184 6 1935 4560 7 1174 131 8 3115 956 9 3129 1088 10 5238 444011 5722 4280 12 3540 375 13 191 2782 14 906 4432 15 3225 1111 16 62962583 17 1457 903 0 855 4475 1 4097 3970 2 4433 4361 3 5198 541 4 11464426 5 3202 2902 6 2724 525 7 1083 4124 8 2326 6003 9 5605 5990 10 43761579 11 4407 984 12 1332 6163 13 5359 3975 14 1907 1854 15 3601 5748 166056 3266 17 3322 4085 0 1768 3244 1 2149 144 2 1589 4291 3 5154 1252 41855 5939 5 4820 2706 6 1475 3360 7 4266 693 8 4156 2018 9 2103 752 103710 3853 11 5123 931 12 6146 3323 13 1939 5002 14 5140 1437 15 1263 29316 5949 4665 17 4548 6380 0 3171 4690 1 5204 2114 2 6384 5565 3 57221757 4 2805 6264 5 1202 2616 6 1018 3244 7 4018 5289 8 2257 3067 9 24833073 10 1196 5329 11 649 3918 12 3791 4581 13 5028 3803 14 3119 3506 154779 431 16 3888 5510 17 4387 4084 0 5836 1692 1 5126 1078 2 5721 6165 33540 2499 4 2225 6348 5 1044 1484 6 6323 4042 7 1313 5603 8 1303 3496 93516 3639 10 5161 2293 11 4682 3845 12 3045 643 13 2818 2616 14 3267 64915 6236 593 16 646 2948 17 4213 1442 0 5779 1596 1 2403 1237 2 2217 15143 5609 716 4 5155 3858 5 1517 1312 6 2554 3158 7 5280 2643 8 4990 1353 95648 1170 10 1152 4366 11 3561 5368 12 3581 1411 13 5647 4661 14 15425401 15 5078 2687 16 316 1755 17 3392 1991.